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say it: DEE-ist
deist is a noun and adjective meaning "a person who believes that God created the universe and then abandoned it". It is pronounced /ˈdiɪst/ — DEE-ist. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a person who believes that God created the universe and then abandoned it
of or relating to deism
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 deist come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.