determinist

1. 1.

   anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny

   Synonymsfatalistpredestinarianpredestinationist

   Broadernecessitarian

Other forms of determinist

plural

determinists·

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.

Questions about determinist

What does determinist mean?

determinist means "anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny".

How many syllables are in determinist?

determinist has 4 syllables: de-ter-mi-nist. The stress falls on "ter". In IPA it is /dɪˈtɝmənəst/.

What is another word for determinist?

Close synonyms include fatalist, predestinarian, predestinationist. 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 determinist a common word?

determinist 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.