Synonyms of doer

doer

noun

as in achiever

a person who actively does things instead of just thinking or talking about them

I'm more of a thinker than a doer.

Synonyms & Similar Words

• achiever
• powerhouse
• enterpriser
• self-starter
• comer
• go-getter
• hustler
• highflyer
• bootstrapper
• individualist
• go-ahead
• live wire
• hummer
• highflier
• eager beaver
• he-man

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• idler
• loafer
• procrastinator
• trifler
• dawdler
• shirker
• slacker
• sluggard
• lounger
• malingerer
• dreamer
• drone
• laggard
• goldbrick
• lazybones
• loiterer
• putterer
• lingerer
• daydreamer
• slowpoke
• dropout
• quitter
• stick-in-the-mud
• ignorer
• dallier
• neglecter
• ne'er-do-well

Examples Sentences

Recent Examples of doer

Estep remembers both of her parents as doers: Her father was an electrician who retired a couple of times but kept finding his way back to work. —Wendy Grossman Kantor, People.com, 6 Oct. 2024

Her back yard in Savannah is full of snakes, raccoons, turtles, and other creatures—nature’s great doers and undoers—and her very individual response to the environment, and to the politics that inform its place in our lives, is a hallmark of her style, her way of being. —Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024

Their technology executives are doers, not vendor managers. —Rodney Zimmel, Fortune, 24 Sep. 2024

In his book Triggers, Marshall Goldsmith talks about the two people in your head: the planner and the doer. —Liz Haberberger, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024