man of action

1. 1.

   someone inclined to act first and think later

   Synonymsman of deeds

   Broaderactor

Questions about man of action

What does man of action mean?

man of action means "someone inclined to act first and think later".

What is another word for man of action?

Close synonyms include man of deeds. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is man of action a common word?

man of action is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.