deist

Questions about deist

What does deist mean?

deist means "a person who believes that God created the universe and then abandoned it". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in deist?

deist has 2 syllables: de-ist. The stress falls on "de". In IPA it is /ˈdiɪst/.

What is another word for deist?

Close synonyms include deistic. 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 deist a common word?

deist 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.