Adjective
(comparative more sceptical, superlative most sceptical)
- Having, or expressing doubt; questioning
- Of or relating to scepticism or the sceptics
Jerry was sceptical that his coworker's project would do much to increase revenue.
The definition of sceptical, also spelled skeptical, means someone who is questioning or having doubts.
An example of someone sceptical is a person who doesn't believe in God.
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Sentence Examples
- Even in that book Hume is able to play with sceptical solutions.
- Mansel tried (1858) to play Pascal's game on Kantian principles, developing the sceptical side of 'Kant's many-faceted mind.
- The key to Reid's philosophy is to be found in his revulsion from the sceptical conclusions of Hume.
- But, having said this, Kant went on to repeat the sceptical suggestion.
- The prominence given by most of the Sophists to rhetoric, their cultivation of a subjective readiness as the essential equipment for life, their substitution of persuasion for conviction, all mark the sceptical undertone of their teaching.
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WORDS NEAR sceptical IN THE DICTIONARY
- sceptical
- sceptered
- sceptering
- scepters