Synonyms for doer
ˈdu ərdo·er

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1. doer

   In strict philosophical usage, the prime mover or doer of an act is the agent. Thus we speak of man as a voluntary agent, a free agent. But in common usage, especially in business, an agent is not the prime actor, but only an instrument or factor, acting under orders or instructions. Compare CAUSE.

   Synonyms:
   actor, agent, factor, instrument, means, mover, operator, performer, promoter

   Antonyms:
   chief, inventor, originator, principal

   Preposition:
   An agent of the company for selling, etc.

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1. doer

   Synonyms:
   agent, actor, performer, originator, perpetrator, maker

   Antonyms:
   undoer, preventer, hinderer, baffler, neutralizes marrer

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1. actor, doer, workernoun

   a person who acts and gets things done

   "he's a principal actor in this affair"; "when you want something done get a doer"; "he's a miracle worker"

   Synonyms:
   prole, player, role player, proletarian, thespian, worker, actor, histrion

Matched Categories

1. • Person

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1. doernoun

   Synonyms:
   actor, operator, performer, agent, executor

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1. List of paraphrases for "doer":

   slayer, killer

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1. Pat Bell:

   He's not a rude person and (the Bushes) weren't raised to be rude. You have to be civil, he's a thinker and a doer. He doesn't mouth off.

2. AiR:

   Nobody can escape Karma, you see. For whatever we do, that is the future that will be. But the one who realizes that the doer is not ME, He is the one from Karma who is free.

3. Bhagavad Gita:

   Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.

4. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi:

   The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.

5. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus:

   A wrong-doer is often a man that has left something undone, not always he that has done something.