Sceptical

Definitions: Sceptical

Sceptical

Adjective

1. Marked by or given to doubt; "a skeptical attitude"; "a skeptical listener".

2. Denying or questioning the tenets of especially a religion; "a skeptical approach to the nature of miracles".

Date "sceptical" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1657. (references)

Synonyms: Sceptical

Synonyms: disbelieving (adj), doubting (adj), questioning (adj), skeptical (adj), unbelieving (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Unbelief Doubt	Adjective: unbelieving; skeptical, sceptical.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Sceptical

English words defined with "sceptical": David Hume ♦ Hume ♦ sceptically, skeptically. (references)

Specialty definitions using "sceptical": Pyrrho, Pyrrhonian School. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	A Sceptical Theory of Morality and Law (Studies in Theoretical and Applied Ethics, Vol 1) (reference) A Somewhat Sceptical Philosophy (reference) Against the Grain: Writings of a Sceptical Optimist (reference) Land of No Buddha : Reflections of a Sceptical Buddhist (reference) Sceptical Essays (reference) (more book examples)
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Title	Author	Quote
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	He stooped to the evil of hypocrisy with others, sceptical of their innocence which he could cajole so easily.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Sceptical" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.61% of the time. "Sceptical" is used about 767 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
Adjective (general or positive)	99.61%	764	8,991
Noun (proper)	0.39%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	767	N/A

Expressions using "sceptical": be sceptical about ♦ be sceptical of. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "sceptical": euro-sceptical.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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

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

Bulgarian		скептически (sceptic), скептичен (dim, incredulous, sceptic). (various references)

Chinese		怀疑论者. (various references)

Czech		skeptický (sceptic, skeptic), pochybovaèný, nedùvìřivý (diffident, distrustful, incredulous, mistrustful, suspicious, wary). (various references)

Finnish		epäuskoinen (incredulous, unbelieving), epäilevä (distrustful, suspicious). (various references)

French		sceptique (sceptic). (various references)

German		skeptisch (doubtfully, incredulous, sceptically, skeptic, skeptical). (various references)

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

Hebrew		אפיקורסי (sceptic), סקפטי (sceptic), ספק� י (doubtful, incredulous, sceptic). (various references)

Hungarian		szkeptikus (sceptic, skeptic, skeptical), kételkedő (doubter, misgiving, sceptic, skeptic, skeptical). (various references)

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

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

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

Pig Latin		epticalscay

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

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

Russian		скептический (incredulous, leery, sceptic, skeptical). (various references)

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

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

Swedish		skeptisk (incredulous, sceptic). (various references)

Thai		น่าสงสัย (doubting, fishy, queer, ropey, shady, suspect, suspicious). (various references)

Turkish		septik (septic, skeptical), kuşkucu (incredulous, sceptic, skeptic, skeptical, suspicious), inançsız (heathenish, unbeliever, unbelieving), şüpheli (chancy, contestable, creaky, debatable, discredited, disputable, dodgy, doubtful, dubious, dubitative, equivocal, fishy, funny, funny peculiar, hazardous, indecisive, indefinable, murky, nebulous, precarious, problematic, problematical, screwy, shadowy, shady, shaky, skeptical, speculative, suspect, suspenseful, suspicious, umbrageous, uncertain, unconvincing), şüpheci (distrustful, dubious, from missouri, mistrustful, sceptic, skeptic, skeptical, suspicious, unbelieving). (various references)

Ukranian		скептичний (novolescent, nullifidian, sceptic, skeptic, skeptical). (various references)

Vietnamese		ho� i nghi (skeptical, unconvinced), hay ngờ vực theo chủ nghĩa ho� i nghi; có tư tưởng ho� i nghi; nhằm ủng hộ tư tưởng ho� i nghi; xuất phát từ tư tưởng ho� i nghi (skeptical), đa nghi (skeptical). (various references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-i-l-p-s-t"
	-1 letter: calcites, septical, tieclasp.
	-2 letters: accepts, aplites, ascetic, aseptic, calcite, calices, caplets, celiacs, clastic, elastic, icecaps, ipecacs, laciest, latices, paliest, placets, plaices, plastic, platies, plicate, sceptic, special, spicate, talipes.
	-3 letters: accept, acetic, apices, aplite, aspect, atelic, calces, caplet, caseic, castle, celiac, cicale, claspt, cleats, eclats, epacts, epical, espial, icecap, ipecac, lactic, lipase, palest, palets, pastel, pastie, pastil, pectic, petals, petsai, pietas, places, placet, plaice, plaits, plates, pleats, plicae, saltie, septal, septic, spicae, spital, splice, staple, stelai, stelic, stipel, tepals, ticals.
	-4 letters: aisle, alecs, alist, aspic, cacti, capes, caste, cates, cecal, ceils, celts, cesta, cesti, cites, claps, clapt, clasp, clast, cleat, clept, clips, clipt, clits, eclat, epact, epics, ileac, islet, istle, laces, laics, lapis, lapse, leaps, leapt, least, lepta, litas, paces, pacts, pails, paise, pales, palet, paste, pates, peals, peats, pelts, petal, pical, picas, pieta, pilea, piles, piste, pitas, place, plait, plate, plats, pleas, pleat, plica, plies, saice, salep, salic, scale, scalp, scape, sepal, sepia, sepic, septa, setal, slate, slept, slice, slipe, slipt, space, spail, spait, spale, spate, speil, spelt, spica, spice, spiel, spile, spilt, spite, splat, split, stale, steal, stela, stile, stipe, taces, taels, tails, talcs, tales, tapes, tapis, teals, telia, telic, tepal, tepas, tesla, tical, tiles.
	-5 letters: aces, acts, ails, aits, alec, ales, alit, alps, alts, apes, apse, asci, ates, cape, caps, case, cast, cate, cats, ceca, ceil, cels, celt, ceps, cist, cite, clap, clip, clit, east, eats, epic, etas, etic, ices, ilea, isle, lace, lacs, laic, laps, lase, last, late, lati, lats, leap, leas, leis, lept, lest, lets, lice, lies, lipa, lipe, lips, lisp, list, lite, lits, pace, pacs, pact, pail, pale, pals, pase, past, pate, pats, peal, peas, peat, pecs, pelt, pest, pets, pial, pias, pica, pice, pics, pies, pile, pita, pits, plat, plea, plie, sail, sale, salp, salt, sate, sati, scat, seal, seat, sect, sept, seta, sial, sice, silt, sipe, site, slap, slat, slip, slit, spae, spat, spec, spic, spit, step, tace, tael, tail, talc, tale, tali, tape, taps, teal, teas, tela, tels, tepa, tics, ties, tile, tils, tips.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-i-l-p-s-t"
	+2 letters: cataleptics, complicates, ectoplasmic.
	+3 letters: malpractices, narcoleptics, plutocracies, specialistic.
	+4 letters: chalcopyrites, conceptualise, conceptualism, conceptualist, plantocracies, practicalness, supercritical.
	+5 letters: accomplishment, conceptualised, conceptualises, conceptualisms, conceptualists, conceptualizes, microparticles, petrochemicals, practicalities, telescopically.
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