chiliastic

1. 1.

   relating to or believing in the millennium of peace and happiness

   Synonymsmillenarian

Questions about chiliastic

What does chiliastic mean?

chiliastic means "relating to or believing in the millennium of peace and happiness".

How many syllables are in chiliastic?

chiliastic has 4 syllables and divides as chi-li-a-stic under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for chiliastic?

Close synonyms include millenarian. 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 chiliastic a common word?

chiliastic 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.