doer

[ doo-er ]

noun

1. a person or thing that does doe does do something, especially a person who gets things done done do with vigor and efficiency.
2. a person characterized by action, as distinguished from one given to contemplation.
3. Australian. an amusing or eccentric person; character.

doer

/ ˈduːə /

noun

1. a person or thing that does something or acts in a specified manner

   a doer of good

2. an active or energetic person
3. a thriving animal, esp a horse

Word History and Origins

Origin of doer¹

1300–50; Middle English. See do ¹, -er ¹

Example Sentences

He said he and his wife Victoria chose it as a "doer upper".

From BBC

“For us,” Smith continues, “it is a love letter to all of our audiences. We see you. We hear you. We want you to be with us. This character is so worldly. Tiana is a princess, but yet she’s an entrepreneur. She’s a doer. She’s a dreamer. She’s all these things. We just felt what a great opportunity this was to give people a celebration.”

From Los Angeles Times

Jim is something of an alpine John Glenn — the doer of a feat of will and skill considered transcendent in the 1960s, a friend of the Kennedy family and the subject of action-shot portraits on the cover of Life magazine.

From New York Times

Eventually, they were joined by a world-class thinker and doer, Steve Simon.

From Los Angeles Times

He could “only disappoint those who expect from him a modicum of theoretical construction: he is a doer, not a thinker,” wrote Russian nationalism expert Marlene Laurelle, as cited the academics Jan Matti Dollbaum, Morvan Lallouet, and Ben Noble’s 2021 biography of Navalny.

From Slate

Related Words

• achiever
• motivator