Sceptic Definition

skeptik
sceptics
noun
sceptics

Skeptic.

Webster's New World
Someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs and claims presented by others, requiring strong evidence before accepting any belief or claim.
Wiktionary
Someone who is undecided as to what is true and enquires after facts.
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Singular:
sceptic
Plural:
sceptics

Origin of Sceptic

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

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Sceptic Sentence Examples

  • The sceptic would have denied both.

  • But he was a philosopher as well, and apparently a sceptic. He is said to have rejected the Koran, to have denied the return to God, and to have regarded death as the end of existence.

  • Hume is the most illustrious and indeed the typical sceptic of modern times.

  • A pupil of Nessus, or, as some accounts prefer, of Democritus himself, he was a complete sceptic. He accepted the Democritean theory of atoms and void and the plurality of worlds, but held a theory of his own that the stars are formed from day to day by the moisture in the air under the heat of the sun.

  • Blanco White, " the rationalist A'Kempis," who had dared to appear as " a religious sceptic in God's presence," had found a biographer and interpreter in Martineau's friend and colleague, John Hamilton Thom.

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