Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

declinist

/dɪˈklaɪnɪst/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: de-clin-ist
IPA: /dɪˈklaɪnɪst/

12

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A subscriber to declinism.

adj

Believing in or tending towards declinism.

Example Sentences

"Rather than accept this, declinists often explained things that did not happen, with explanations that did not work, based on bad history. Thus declinists insist that British R&D has always been low, the City always over-mighty, the country always in the grip of empire, the state under the imaginative control of classicists and historians rather than technocrats, that industry never stood a chance."
"Against a background of almost paralytic gloom and declinist talk, Vienna tried to take on Napoleon, breifly bhecked him at Aspern-Essling and then went down to absolute defeat at Wagram […]."
"As our first declinist candidate for president, Donald J Trump did at least express something new and true about the nature of our country."

Etymology

From decline + -ist.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: decline

Regional Pronunciation

British English: /dɪˈklaɪnɪst/

Inflected Forms

declinists (plural) more declinist (comparative) most declinist (superlative)

Questions

How do you pronounce declinist?: The recorded pronunciation is /dɪˈklaɪnɪst/.
What does declinist mean?: A subscriber to declinism.
Where does declinist come from?: From decline + -ist.

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