Sceptical meaning

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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Having, or expressing doubt; questioning.
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Of or relating to scepticism or the sceptics.
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Sceptical Sentence Examples

  • Even in that book Hume is able to play with sceptical solutions.

  • But, having said this, Kant went on to repeat the sceptical suggestion.

  • Mansel tried (1858) to play Pascal's game on Kantian principles, developing the sceptical side of 'Kant's many-faceted mind.

  • The sceptical suspension of judgment has its limits, however.

  • The natural tendency of his mind is often (and correctly) spoken of as sceptical.

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