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sceptic

/ˈskɛp.tɪk/

sceptic is the alternative spelling of skeptic.

Meaning of skeptic

Noun

skeptic (plural skeptics)

  1. (US) Someone who doubts beliefs, claims, plans, etc. that are accepted by others as true or appropriate, especially one who habitually does so.
    • But for the fly he might have made me think He had been at his poetry , comparing Nailhead with fly and fly with huckleberry : How like a fly , how very like a fly . But the real fly he missed would never do ; The missed fly made me dangerously skeptic.[…]1997, Robert Faggen, Robert Frost and the Challenge of Darwin, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 98
  2. (US) Someone who is skeptical towards religion.

See all 3 meanings of skeptic

Forms of sceptic

Noun
pluralsceptics
Adjective
comparativemore sceptic
superlativemost sceptic

Words formed from sceptic

Phrases with sceptic

Words that rhyme with sceptic

Questions about sceptic

What is sceptic the alternative spelling of?
Sceptic is the alternative spelling of skeptic.
How do you pronounce sceptic?
Sceptic is pronounced /ˈskɛp.tɪk/.

Words near sceptic in the dictionary

  1. sceptered
  2. scepterellate
  3. sceptering
  4. scepterless
  5. scepters
  6. sceptic
  7. sceptical
  8. scepticality
  9. sceptically
  10. scepticalness
  11. scepticise

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