Schopenhauer

[ shoh-puhn-hou-er; German shoh-puhn-hou-uhr ]

noun

1. Ar·thur [ahr, -t, oo, r], 1788–1860, German philosopher.

Schopenhauer

/ ˈʃoːpənhauər; ˌʃəʊpənˈhaʊərɪən /

noun

1. SchopenhauerArthur17881860MGermanPHILOSOPHY: philosopher Arthur (ˈartʊr). 1788–1860, German pessimist philosopher. In his chief work, The World as Will and Idea (1819), he expounded the view that will is the creative primary factor and idea the secondary receptive factor

Derived Forms

• ˈSchopenˌhauerˌism, noun
• Schopenhauerian, adjective

Other Words From

• Scho·pen·hau·er·i·an [shoh, -p, uh, n-hou, uh, r-ee-, uh, n, -hou-er-, shoh-p, uh, n-hou-, eer, -ee-, uh, n], adjective

Example Sentences

Life, as the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer once said, is a pendulum that swings between pain and boredom.

From New York Times

But Schopenhauer could not account for the elation with which residents of Chicago embraced an unlikely attraction this month: a hole in a sidewalk shaped like a rat.

From New York Times

On what philosopher she thinks of when she thinks of pasta: Maybe Schopenhauer … yes, probably him.

From Seattle Times

And in between big block quotes of Seneca, Socrates, Schopenhauer and many more, that’s exactly what he does, in unsettling bursts.

From New York Times

Arthur Schopenhauer, the nineteenth-century German philosopher, said it was so unnecessarily complicated that it was a “brilliant piece of perversity.”

From Literature