Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

distractionist

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: dis-trac-tion-ist
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Tending to divert attention from one thing to another.

noun

Somebody who evades an issue by discussing another.

Etymology

From distraction + -ist.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: distraction

Inflected Forms

more distractionist (comparative) most distractionist (superlative) distractionists (plural)

Questions

What does distractionist mean?: Tending to divert attention from one thing to another.
Where does distractionist come from?: From distraction + -ist.

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