Skeptic Definition

skĕptĭk

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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adjective

Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Skeptic

Singular:

skeptic

Plural:

skeptics

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