Hobbes
English · Français · Thesaurus
AI In plain words
Writing a short explanation…
Written by a house AI from the entry below, in your language. The entry itself is the source.
Hobbes
- /hɒbz/ UK
- /hɑbz/ US
Rhymes with -ɒbz
Where it comes from
From a medieval diminutive form of the given name Robert + the patronymic suffix -s.
proper noun Hobbeses
- A surname originating as a patronymic.
- Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679), English philosopher. Masters and men, according to Mr. Thornton, fatally confront each other in something like Hobbes’s misanthropically imagined state of nature, with nothing but force, or the fear of force in the background […]
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: hobbs, contractarian, absolutist, determinist, empiricist, philosopher, materialist, secularist, mechanist, naturalist, political theorist, realist, pessimist, skeptic, fatalist, nominalist
Translations
Talk about this word "Hobbes." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/hobbes. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. Hobbes. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/hobbes "Hobbes." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/hobbes.Cite this
@misc{hobbes_2026,
title = {Hobbes},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hobbes},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
