Sceptic

Definition: Sceptic

Sceptic

Noun

1. Someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs.

Date "sceptic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1660. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Literature	Sceptic (Greek) means one who thinks for himself, and does not receive on another's testimony. Pyrrho founded the philosophic sect called "Sceptics," and Epictetus combated their dogmas. In theology we apply the word to those who will not accept Revelation. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Synonyms: Sceptic

Synonyms: doubter (n), skeptic (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Sceptic

Specialty definitions using "sceptic": Pyrrho. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Sceptic" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Romanian (sceptic, sceptical, sceptically, skeptic, skeptically).

Domain	Usage
Lyrics	A thousand sceptic hands ("THINGS CAN ONLY GET BETTER"; performing artist: Howard Jones)
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Domain	Title
Books	Bayle: The Sceptic (reference) Humorous Sceptic or, Is It Just Me? (reference) In search of hope : a study of the Bible in the context of history, by a sceptic for sceptics (reference) Sixty Years in Australia: Saga of a Sceptic (reference) The Religion of a Sceptic (reference) (more book examples)
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Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Enjolras, being a believer, disdained this sceptic, and being sober, scorned this drunkard.
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"Sceptic" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sceptic" is used about 126 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%	126	28,512

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "sceptic": euro-sceptic.
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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.

Language		Translations for "sceptic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		skeptik (non believer, sceptical, skeptic, unbeliever). (various references)

Arabic		‏شكي (sceptical), ‏شكوكي (sceptical). (various references)

Bulgarian		скептически (sceptical), скептичен (dim, incredulous, sceptical), скептик (skeptic, unbeliever). (various references)

Chinese		怀疑 (Disbelieve, Disbelieved, Disbelieving, Distrusted, Distrustful, Distrusting, Doubted, Doubting, skeptic, skeptical, suspected, Suspecting, suspicion). (various references)

Czech		skeptik, skeptický (sceptical, skeptic), pochybovaè. (various references)

Farsi		پیروفلسفه بدبینی , سوفسطاءی (Sophist, Sophisticated), ادم بدبین . (various references)

Finnish		skeptikko, epäilijä (doubter). (various references)

French		sceptique (sceptical). (various references)

German		skeptiker (sceptics, skeptic, skeptics, skepticsUS). (various references)

Greek		σκεπτικόσ (broody, cogitative, contemplative, pensive, reflective, ruminant, ruminative, sceptical, skeptical, speculative, thoughtful, wistful), σκεπτικιστήσ, αμφιβάλλων (sceptical, skeptical). (various references)

Hebrew		אפיקורוס (heretic), אפיקורסי (sceptical), סקפטי (sceptical), ספקן (doubter, misbeliever), ספק� י (doubtful, incredulous, sceptical). (various references)

Hungarian		szkeptikus (sceptical, skeptic, skeptical). (various references)

Indonesian		orang yang ragu. (various references)

Italian		scettico (sceptical, skeptic, unbeliever). (various references)

Korean		회의 (Conference, Council, sceptical, skeptic, skeptical). (various references)

Manx		ouryssagh (agnostic, disputable, distrustful, doubtful, doubting, dubious, mistrusting, moot, questionable, sceptical, shady, suspecting, suspicious), meechredjuagh (agnostic, disbeliever, infidel, sceptical, unbeliever, unbelieving). (various references)

Pig Latin		epticscay

Portuguese		incrédulo (disboscation, impious, incredulous, non believer, sceptical, skeptic, unbeliever, unbelieving, unfaithful), cético (incremation, infidel, sceptical, skeptic). (various references)

Romanian		sceptic (sceptical, sceptically, skeptic, skeptically). (various references)

Russian		скептик (doubter, doubting Thomas, non believer, Purrhonist, skeptic, unbeliever). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		sumnjičav (distrustful, leery, sceptical, suspicious). (various references)

Spanish		escéptico (sceptical, skeptic, skeptical). (various references)

Swedish		skeptisk (incredulous, sceptical), skeptiker (non believer, nonbeliever), tvivlare (doubter). (various references)

Thai		ผู้สงสัย (skeptic, skeptical), ซึ่งสงสัย. (various references)

Turkish		septik kimse (skeptic), kuşkucu kimse (skeptic, suspicious person), kuşkucu (incredulous, sceptical, skeptic, skeptical, suspicious), hristiyanlıktan şüphesi olan kimse (skeptic), şüpheci (distrustful, dubious, from missouri, mistrustful, sceptical, skeptic, skeptical, suspicious, unbelieving). (various references)

Ukranian		скептичний (novolescent, nullifidian, sceptical, skeptic, skeptical), скептик (non believer, nullifidian, skeptic, unbeliever). (various references)

Vietnamese		người theo chủ nghĩa ho� i nghi (skeptic), người hay ho� i nghi (skeptic). (various references)

Welsh		sgeptig. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "sceptic": sceptical, scepticism, scepticisms, sceptics. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-c-e-i-p-s-t"
	-1 letter: pectic, septic.
	-2 letters: cesti, cites, epics, piste, sepic, spice, spite, stipe.
	-3 letters: ceps, cist, cite, epic, etic, ices, pecs, pest, pets, pice, pics, pies, pits, sect, sept, sice, sipe, site, spec, spic, spit, step, tics, ties, tips.
	-4 letters: cep, cis, ice, its, pec, pes, pet, pic, pie, pis, pit, psi, sec, sei, set, sic, sip, sit, tic, tie, tip, tis.
	-5 letters: es, et, is, it, pe, pi, si, ti.
	Words containing the letters "c-c-e-i-p-s-t"
	+1 letter: sceptics.
	+2 letters: cityscape, copasetic, copesetic, ecliptics, practices, precincts, sceptical.
	+3 letters: accipiters, capacities, cityscapes, coscripted, practicers, scepticism, septicemic, telescopic.
	+4 letters: capacitates, captaincies, cataleptics, checkpoints, circumspect, complicates, conceptions, conscripted, ectoplasmic, epicuticles, peacockiest, pickpockets, precocities, scepticisms, specificity, sphincteric.
	+5 letters: acceptations, accipitrines, capacitances, centerpieces, competencies, complicities, concupiscent, corecipients, cystoscopies, expectancies, hypercritics, incapacities, interpsychic, malpractices, narcoleptics, pectinaceous, perspicacity, phenocrystic, pisciculture, plutocracies, polytechnics, postaccident, postischemic, psychoactive, psychometric, pyrotechnics, reciprocates, specialistic, stereoscopic, stethoscopic, streptococci.
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