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Definition: Deist |
DeistNoun1. A person who believes that God created the universe and then abandoned it. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "deist" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references) |
Synonym: DeistSynonym: freethinker (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Heterodoxy | Latitudinarian, Deist, Theist, Unitarian; positivist, materialist; Homoiousian, Homoousian, limitarian, theosophist, ubiquitarian; skeptic |
Irreligion | Atheist, skeptic, unbeliever, deist, infidel, pyrrhonist; giaour, heathen, alien, gentile, Nazarene; espri fort, freethinker, latitudinarian, rationalist; materialist, positivist, nihilist, agnostic, somatist, theophobist. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Deist |
| Non-English Usage: "Deist" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (deist), Romanian (deist), Swedish (deist), Turkish (deist). |
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| The following table summarizes the usage of "deist" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Deist | Last name | 170 | 40,977 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
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Ending with "deist": anti-deist. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
deist | 44 |
deist safety | 7 |
deist equipment safety | 2 |
christian deist | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "deist"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | deist. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | деист. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | deista. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | خداپرست (Theist), خداگرای . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Gottgläubige (deists). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | θεϊσμόσ (theism), θεϊστήσ (theist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | deista. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | deista. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | jeeaghtagh (theological). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eistday deísta. (various references) deist. (various references) деист. (various references) deísta (deistic). (various references) deist. (various references) dinlere değil tanrıya inanan kimse, deist. (various references) деїст. (various references) nh thần luận. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "deist": deistic, deistical, deistically, deists. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "deist": fideist. (additional references) | |
Words containing "deist": fideistic, fideists. (additional references) | |
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"Deist" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: daoist, daust, dayest, Daysit, deats, decist, Decst, dedit, deets, dehist, deias, deint, deiz, delist, delst, denist, desi, desic, desil, Desio, desity, dest, D'est, desta, deste, Deusto, dexis, dexit, deyt, diast, diebt, Dienst, Dienste, diest, Dniestr, doits, drist, duist, duits, edis, edoist, Edsiv, eist, geist, neist, reist, seist, sesit, zeist. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "deist" (pronounced dē"ust) |
| 4 | -ē" u s t | freest, luckiest. |
| 3 | -u s t | ablest, abolitionist, abortionist, absolutist, accompanist, activist, agonist, agriculturalist, agronomist, alarmist, alchemist, allergist, amethyst, amorist, analyst, anarchist, anatomist, anesthesiologist, anesthetist, angriest, animist, antagonist, anthropologist, anticommunist, apologist, apprenticed, aquarist, archaeologist, archivist, arsonist, artist, atheist, August, ballast, balloonist, barest, behaviorist, biased, bicyclist, biggest, biochemist, biologist, bitterest, blackest, bleakest, bloodiest, bluest, bluntest, boldest, botanist, bravest, breakfast, briefest, brightest, broadest, busiest, buttressed, calloused, canoeist, canvassed, capitalist, cardiologist, caricaturist, cartoonist, catalyst, cellist, chauvinist, cheapest, choicest, clarinetist, classicist, cleanest, closest, coldest, colonialist, colonist, columnist, communist, conservationist, contortionist, conversationalist, coolest, cornettist, craziest, creamiest, criminologist, cruelest, cultist, cyclist, darkest, deadliest, dearest, deepest, deforest, densest, dentist, dermatologist, determinist, direst, dirtiest, dishonest, disinterest, driest, druggist, dullest, dumbest, earliest, earnest, easiest, ecologist, economist, editorialist, eldest, elitist, embarrassed, empiricist, encompassed, encyclopedist, endocrinologist, entomologist, environmentalist, epidemiologist, ethicist, ethnomusicologist, exhibitionist, exorcist, expressionist, extremist, faintest, fairest, fanciest, farthest, fascist, fastest, fattest, federalist, feminist, fetishist, fewest, fiercest, finalist, finest, firmest, fittest, flimsiest, florist, focused, focussed, foggiest, fondest, forest, formalist, freshest, friendliest, fullest, fundamentalist, funnest, funniest, furthest, generalist, geneticist, gentlest, geologist, gerontologist, goldest, grandest, gravest, grayest, greatest, greediest, greenest, grimaced, grimmest, grooviest, guitarist, gymnast, gynecologist, happiest, hardest, harnessed, harshest, harvest, healthiest, heaviest, heftiest, herbalist, highest, hippest, hobbyist, holiest, honest, hottest, hugest, humblest, humorist, hygienist, idealist, ideologist, illusionist, immunologist, imperialist, impressionist, individualist, industrialist, institutionalist, instrumentalist, interest, internationalist, internist, interventionist, isolationist, jaundiced, journalist, juiciest, junkiest, keenest, kindest, kremlinologist, largest, latest, laziest, leanest, leftist, librettist, lightest, likeliest, linguist, littlest, liveliest, lobbyist, locust, longest, loudest, lowest, loyalist, lyricist, machinist, manicurist, mannerist, masochist, materialist, meanest, medalist, mercantilist, merest, meteorologist, methodist, microbiologist, mightiest, mildest, mineralogist, misogynist, modernist, modest, monopolist, motorcyclist, motorist, musicologist, narrowest, nastiest, nationalist, naturalist, nearest, neatest, neediest, neurologist, neuroscientist, neutralist, newest, noblest, noisiest, noncommunist, nonconformist, noninterest, noticed, novelist, nutritionist, oboist, obstructionist, oddest, oldest, oncologist, ophthalmologist, opportunist, organist, orthodontist, orthopedist, pacifist, paleontologist, palest, panelist, pathologist, pessimist, pharmacist, philanthropist, photojournalist, physiologist, pianist, polemicist, poorest, populist, prefaced, prejudiced, premised, preservationist, prettiest, priciest, promised, propagandist, protagonist, protectionist, proudest, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, psychologist, psychotherapist, purchased, purest, quickest, quietest, quietist, racist, radiologist, rainforest, rainiest, rapist, rarest, receptionist, reddest, refocused, reforest, remotest, repurchased, reservationist, reservist, resurfaced, revolutionist, rheumatologist, richest, rightist, riskiest, ritziest, roughest, rudest, saddest, sadist, safest, satirist, savviest, scariest, scientist, secessionist, secularist, segregationist, seismologist, semifinalist, separatist, serologist, serviced, severest, sexiest, shakiest, sharpest, shortest, showiest, shrewdest, sickest, silliest, simplest, skimpiest, skinniest, sleekest, slickest, slightest, slimmest, sloppiest, slowest, smallest, smartest, smoggiest, smoothest, socialist, sociologist, softest, soonest, soundest, specialist, spiritualist, stablest, staunchest, steepest, sternest, stickiest, stiffest, stormiest, strangest, strategist, strictest, strongest, stupidest, supremacist, surest, surfaced, survivalist, sweetest, swiftest, tallest, tannest, technologist, televangelist, tempest, terraced, theorist, therapist, thickest, thinnest, thorniest, tightest, tiniest, toniest, toughest, tourist, toxicologist, traditionalist, trendiest, trickiest, truest, ugliest, ultranationalist, unbiased, unfocused, unionist, unkindest, unnoticed, urologist, violinist, violist, virologist, vocalist, warmest, weakest, wealthiest, weirdest, wettest, whitest, widest, wildest, wisest, witnessed, worthiest, yellowest, youngest, zaniest, zoologist. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: diets, dites, edits, sited, stied, tides. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-i-s-t" | |
-1 letter: dies, diet, dite, dits, edit, ides, side, site, teds, tide, tied, ties. | |
-2 letters: die, dis, dit, eds, ids, its, sei, set, sit, ted, tie, tis. | |
-3 letters: de, ed, es, et, id, is, it, si, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-i-s-t" | |
+1 letter: bedsit, bidets, debits, deists, delist, demits, desist, digest, direst, ditzes, divest, driest, duties, edicts, fisted, histed, idlest, listed, misted, sifted, silted, skited, spited, stiped, stride, suited, teiids, teinds, tidies, tildes, todies, widest, wisted. | |
+2 letters: agisted, aridest, astride, bedsits, bestrid, betides, bilsted, bistred, cestoid, coedits, credits, datives, dauties, dawties, deceits, deistic, deities, delicts, delists, density, dentils, dentins, dentist, depicts, deposit, desists, despite, destain, destine, destiny, details, detains, deticks, dewiest, diastem, diaster, diciest, diester, dieters, digests, dilates, dilutes, dimmest, dipnets, directs, dirties, discept, disject, dispute, disrate, disseat, dissect, dissent, dissert, distend, distent, distome, ditches, dithers, ditsier, ditties, diverts, divests, dopiest, dotiest, doziest, duelist, dunites, dustier, edgiest, editors, endites, existed, feudist, fideist, fidgets, foisted, heisted, hoisted, ideates, indents, indites, instead, intends, iodates, joisted, kindest, midgets, mildest, mindset, misdate, misedit, mistend, modiste, nidgets, osteoid, outside, peptids, podites, posited, reedits, resited, sainted, shifted, shitted, sighted, skirted, slitted, snidest, sopited, sortied, spirted, spitted, staider, stained, steroid, sticked, stiffed, stifled, stilled, stilted, stimied, stinted, stipend, stirred, storied, strider, strides, striped, strived, studdie, studied, studier, studies, stymied, subedit, tardies, teddies, tedious, tediums, tidiers, tidiest, tinders, tineids, tirades, tissued, toadies, toddies, topside, triodes, twisted, visited, vistaed, waisted, whisted, widgets, wildest. | |
+3 letters: acridest, adamsite, adenitis, airdates, andesite, assisted, asteroid, astonied, atomised, audients, azotised, baptised, bawdiest, beadiest, bedights, bedticks, bedtimes, bemisted, bestride, bilsteds, bisected, bistered, blindest, bristled, cestoids, chedites, citadels, cordites, crudites, curdiest, curtsied, daffiest, dainties, dandiest, dashiest, dataries, daubiest, daytimes, deediest, deficits, delights, delimits, delisted, deltoids, demerits, demonist, demotics, demotist, dentines, dentists, deorbits, depaints, deposits, deputies, desertic, desinent, desisted, despited, despites, despotic, destains, destined, destines, destrier, detinues, detrains, detritus, deutzias, deviants, deviates, dextrins, dhooties, diabetes, dialects, diastase, diastema, diastems, diasters, diastole, dickiest, dictates, dictiest, diesters, diestock, diestrum, diestrus, diethers, digested, digester, digestor, dilaters, diluents, diluters, dimeters, dimities, dinettes, dingiest, dinkiest, dioptase, diopters, dioptres, diorites, dippiest, dirtiest, disaster, discepts, discreet, discrete, disherit, dishiest, disinter, disjects, diskette, disputed, disputer, disputes, disquiet, disrated, disrates, disseats, dissects, dissents, disserts, distance, distaste, distaves, distends, distomes, distress, disunite, ditchers, ditheism, ditheist, ditsiest, ditziest, divested, divinest, dizziest, dodgiest, doggiest, domestic, dorkiest, dottiest, dowdiest, downiest, driblets, drifters, duckiest, duelists, duellist, duettist, dumpiest, dungiest, dunnites, duskiest, dustiest, dustlike, editions, editress, enlisted, epidotes, ethmoids, faddiest, feudists, fideists, gaudiest, giddiest, gladiest, godliest, grodiest, handiest, hardiest, headiest, hedgiest, hedonist, hideouts, hoodiest, idealist, immodest, impasted, imposted, inditers, infested, ingested, inserted, insetted, insisted, instated, insulted, intrudes, invested, isolated, itemised, jadeites, lardiest, leadiest, ledgiest, limiteds, listened, lyddites, medalist, mediants, mediates, melodist, midterms, mindsets, misacted, miscited, misdated, misdates, misdealt, misedits, mismated, misrated, mistends, mistimed, mistuned, mistyped, modelist, modistes, moldiest, moodiest, mortised, muddiest, neediest, nerdiest, nitrides, nudities, oddities, osteoids, otitides, outrides, outsider, outsides, outsized, oxidates, peptides, peridots, pistoled, pitheads, podgiest, poetised, postdive, predicts, preedits, priested, proteids, pudgiest, radiates, randiest, rapidest, readiest, readmits, redbaits, redigest, redshift, redshirt, redtails, reediest, relisted, resident, resifted, resisted, respited, ridgiest, riposted, riptides, rowdiest, ruddiest, safetied, sandiest, satiated, scripted, sedating, sedation, sedative, sedgiest, sediment, sedition, sedulity, seediest, seedtime, seriated, shadiest, shithead, siderite, sidestep, signeted, sintered, sinuated, sistered, situated, slighted, snitched, sodalite, sodomite, solidest, solitude, spicated, spirited, splinted, sprinted, spritzed, squinted, squirted, staidest, steadied, steadier, steadies, steadily, steading, steroids, stickled, stipends, stippled, stipuled, stitched, stithied, stodgier, stolider, strained, striated, stridden, strident, striders, stringed, stripped, studdies, studiers, studlier, stupider, sturdied, sturdier, sturdies, stylised, stylized, subedits, sudsiest, summited, switched, syndetic, talipeds, tardiest, tawdries, tendrils, thirsted, tickseed, tiddlers, tideless, tiderips, tideways, tidiness, timidest, tinseled, tiredest, toluides, topsider, topsides, traipsed, trendies, tribades, tridents, trindles, twiddles, unlisted, unsifted, unsuited, untidies, utilised, verdicts, videttes, vividest, wedgiest, weediest, weirdest, whishted, whistled, wideouts, windiest, woodiest, wordiest. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 65 69 73 74 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. . .. ... - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100101 01101001 01110011 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D e i s t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0065 0069 0073 0074 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3871758586 |
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