Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

skeptically

/ˈskɛptɪkli/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.10 in modern English

Syllables: skep-ti-cal-ly
IPA: /ˈskɛptɪkli/

22

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

In a skeptical manner, with skepticism.

American usage

Example Sentences

"By skeptically observing whites' pretense to paternalism and slaves' pretense to Samboism, the slaveholder became mistrustful of everyone's performances."
""And you're the only person in the country who can do it." Get off," she said skeptically."
"Apple Fitness+ has been as anticipated as anything in the digital fitness realm could be. Their platform seemed ambitious, expensive, and try as I might to imagine fitnessy innovations, I kept skeptically asking: How much room is there to actually improve a streaming HIIT or spin class in a new way?"

Etymology

Etymology tree Latin scepticus Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English skeptical Middle English -ly English -ly English skeptically From skeptical + -ly.

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈskɛptɪkli/

Usage

American usage

Inflected Forms

more skeptically (comparative) most skeptically (superlative) sceptically (alternative)

Synonyms

sceptically

Questions

How do you pronounce skeptically?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈskɛptɪkli/.
What does skeptically mean?: In a skeptical manner, with skepticism.
Where does skeptically come from?: Etymology tree Latin scepticus Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English skeptical Middle English -ly English -ly English skeptically From skeptical + -ly.

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