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Definition: Doubter |
DoubterNoun1. Someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs. 2. A person who doubts truth of religion. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "doubter" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1660. (references) |
Synonyms: DoubterSynonyms: agnostic (n), sceptic (n), skeptic (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Unbelief Doubt | Doubter, skeptic, cynic.; unbeliever. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | To whom did this anarchical doubter ally himself in this phalanx of absolute minds? |
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| "Doubter" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Doubter" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 13 | 97,576 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "doubter": oyster-doubter. | |
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| Language | Translations for "doubter"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | epäilijä (sceptic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | zweifler (skeptic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ספקן (misbeliever, sceptic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kétkedő (dubious, incredulous, magniloquent), kételkedő (misgiving, sceptic, sceptical, skeptic, skeptical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | dooyteilagh (doubtful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oubterday скептик (doubting Thomas, non believer, Purrhonist, sceptic, skeptic, unbeliever), сомневающийся человек. (various references) tvivlare (sceptic). (various references) şüpheci kimse. (various references) amheuwr (skeptic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "doubter": doubters. (additional references) | |
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"Doubter" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Doebner, doubte, dougter, doute, d'outre, Dubtek. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "doubter" (pronounced dou"ter) |
| 3 | -ou" t er | outer, pouter, powter, scouter. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: obtrude, outbred, redoubt. | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-e-o-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: bruted, debtor, detour, redout, routed, toured. | |
-2 letters: bored, brute, buret, buteo, debut, doter, doubt, orbed, outed, outer, outre, rebut, redub, robed, route, trode, trued, tubed, tuber, turbo, uredo. | |
-3 letters: bedu, bode, bore, bort, bout, bred, brut, burd, bute, debt, doer, dore, dote, dour, drub, duet, dure, duro, euro, redo, robe, rode, rote, roue. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-e-o-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: doubters, obdurate, obtruded, obtruder, obtrudes, outbreed, redoubts, taboured, troubled, tuberoid. | |
+2 letters: obtruders, obturated, outbarked, outbraved, outbreeds, outbribed, outburned, sodbuster, subeditor, tamboured. | |
+3 letters: abductores, counterbid, earthbound, obdurately, objurgated, obstructed, outbragged, outbrawled, outrebound, rebuttoned, roundtable, sodbusters, subcordate, subeditors, subrogated, untroubled. | |
+4 letters: beardtongue, boatbuilder, contributed, counterbade, counterbids, outbreeding, outnumbered, outrebounds, outthrobbed, redoubtable, redoubtably, roundtables, strikebound, subdirector, subordinate, thunderbolt, tuberculoid, underbought. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 6F 75 62 74 65 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. --- ..- -... - . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101111 01110101 01100010 01110100 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D o u b t e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 006F 0075 0062 0074 0065 0072 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38818768867184 |
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