freethinker Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a person who believes that God created the universe and then abandoned it
    deist.

WordNet

Free"think`er noun
Definitions
  1. One who speculates or forms opinions independently of the authority of others; esp., in the sphere or religion, one who forms opinions independently of the authority of revelation or of the church; an unbeliever; -- a term assumed by deists and skeptics in the eighteenth century.
    Atheist is an old-fashioned word: I'm a freethinker, child. Addison.
    Syn. -- Infidel; skeptic; unbeliever. See Infidel.

Webster 1913