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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
deictic is a noun and adjective meaning "a word specifying identity or spatial or temporal location from the perspective of a speaker or hearer in the context in which the communication occurs". It carries 2 recorded senses.
a word specifying identity or spatial or temporal location from the perspective of a speaker or hearer in the context in which the communication occurs
“words that introduce particulars of the speaker's and hearer's shared cognitive field into the message”
relating to or characteristic of a word whose reference depends on the circumstances of its use
“deictic pronouns”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for deictic come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.