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skeptic
[ skep-tik ]
noun
- a person who questions the validity or authenticity of something purporting to be factual.
- a person who maintains a doubting attitude, as toward values, plans, statements, or the character of others.
- a person who doubts the truth of a religion, especially Christianity, or of important elements of it.
Synonyms: doubter
Antonyms: believer
- (initial capital letter) Philosophy.
- a member of a philosophical school of ancient Greece, the earliest group of which consisted of Pyrrho and his followers, who maintained that real knowledge of things is impossible.
- any later thinker who doubts or questions the possibility of real knowledge of any kind.
adjective
- pertaining to skeptics or skepticism; skeptical.
- (initial capital letter) pertaining to the Skeptics.
skeptic
/ ˈskɛptɪk /
noun
- an archaic, and the usual US, spelling of sceptic
Derived Forms
- ˈskepticism, noun
- ˈskepticalness, noun
- ˈskeptical, adjective
- ˈskeptically, adverb
Other Words From
- anti·skeptic noun
- non·skeptic adjective noun
Word History and Origins
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Even shovels in the ground, Fisher said, might not satisfy the skeptics.
This war reminded everyone — Europe, China and even the skeptics at home — who exactly is the world’s leading power.
Vaccine skeptics have long-since leveraged the rapid roll out of mRNA vaccines to add fuel to heated arguments surrounding vaccine safety.
The outbreak has proved to be an early test for the newly confirmed secretary of Health and Human Wervices, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a noted vaccine skeptic.
Merz isn't the only mainstream European conservative to turn bearish on America skeptic; it's starting to look like a trend.
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