Skeptic Definition

skeptik
skeptics
noun
skeptics
A person who habitually doubts, questions, or suspends judgment upon matters generally accepted.
Webster's New World
A member of any of the ancient Greek philosophical schools that denied the possibility of any certain knowledge.
Webster's New World
A person who believes in or practices philosophical skepticism.
Webster's New World
A person who doubts religious doctrines.
Webster's New World
Someone undecided as to what is true.
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Other Word Forms of Skeptic

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skeptic
Plural:
skeptics

Origin of Skeptic

  • From Latin *scepticus, only in plural Sceptici (“the sect of Skeptics"), from Ancient Greek σκεπτικός (skeptikos, “thoughtful, inquiring"), from σκέπτομαι (skeptomai, “I consider"), compare to σκοπέω (skopeo, “I view, examine").

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin Scepticus disciple of Pyrrho of Elis from Greek Skeptikos from skeptesthai to examine spek- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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