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Sceptically

Definition: Sceptically

Sceptically

Adverb

1. With scepticism; in a sceptical manner; "he looked at her sceptically".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "sceptically" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1873. (references)

Synonym: Sceptically

Synonym: skeptically (adv). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: Sceptically

"Sceptically" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sceptically" is used about 58 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adverb (general)100%5844,427

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Sceptically

Language Translations for "sceptically"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

怀疑地 (Distrustfully, skeptically). (various references)

   

German

  

skeptisch (doubtfully, incredulous, sceptical, skeptic, skeptical). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

회의 으로 (skeptically). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

epticallyscay

   

Romanian

  

sceptic (sceptic, sceptical, skeptic, skeptically), cu scepticism. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Sceptically

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-i-l-l-p-s-t-y"

-2 letters: cityscape, sceptical, specially, specialty, sylleptic.

-3 letters: acetylic, allspice, calcites, calicles, calycles, clayiest, epically, palliest, pastille, playlets, playlist, septical, tieclasp.

-4 letters: accepts, acetyls, aplites, ascetic, aseptic, calcite, calices, calicle, callets, calyces, calycle, caplets, cecally, celiacs, cellist, clastic, clypeal, cyclase, cyclist, cylices, cypsela, ectypal, elastic, icecaps, ipecacs, laciest, latices, paisley, paliest, pallets, placets, plaices, plastic, platies, playlet, plicate, saltily, scalpel, sceptic, special, spicate, stalely, tailles, talipes, tallies, typical.

-5 letters: accept, acetic, acetyl, alleys, allies, apices, aplite, aspect, atelic, atypic, calces, callet, caplet, caseic, castle, celiac, cicale, cicely, claspt, cleats, clypei, cycles, cystic, easily, eclats, epacts, epical, espial, icecap, illest, ipecac, lacily, lactic, lapels, lastly, lately, lealty, lilacs, lipase, listel, lysate, palely, palest, palets, pallet, pastel, pastie, pastil, pectic, petals, petsai, pietas, places, placet, plaice, plaits, plates, platys, pleats, plicae, plical, psylla, sallet, saltie, scilla, septal, septic, slatey, spacey, spicae, spicey, spital, splice, staple, stelai, stelic, stella, stilly, stipel, taille, tallis, telial, tellys, tepals, ticals, yclept.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-i-l-l-p-s-t-y"
 

+3 letters: telescopically.

 

+5 letters: psychometrically, stereoscopically.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Sceptically


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 63 65 70 74 69 63 61 6C 6C 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    -.-.    .    .--.    -    ..    -.-.    .-    .-..    .-..    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01100011 01100101 01110000 01110100 01101001 01100011 01100001 01101100 01101100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#99 &#101 &#112 &#116 &#105 &#99 &#97 &#108 &#108 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0063 0065 0070 0074 0069 0063 0061 006C 006C 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5369718286756967787891

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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