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sceptical

sceptical adjective: commonwealth standard spelling of skeptical.

Adjective

sceptical (comparative more sceptical, superlative most sceptical)

  1. Commonwealth standard spelling of skeptical.
    • But regardless of what they made of phrenology, those who saw craniometry as a means of measuring the relative weight of intelligence and emotion in psychological makeup were generally sceptical as to whether, as Blumenbach and Camper believed, humanity had branched from one ancestral pair into...2020 October 5, Paul Turnbull, “Thinking About Craniometry- The Racial Turn”, in Paul Turnbull
    • And according to Hughes, HM Treasury is still sceptical about rail electrification. "It's not because they don't see electrification as a good thing, but I think when you look at it from the UK-wide perspective, if you have £x billion to spend on decarbonisation, you don't necessarily start with...2025 February 5, Peter Plisner, “East West Rail: progress from west to east”, in RAIL, number 1028, page 30

sceptical meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam

sceptical in Hindi

sceptical, distrustful
शक्की śakkī

sceptical in Tamil

ஐயுறவு மனப்பான்மையுடைய, தற்கால ஐயுறவுவாதி, பிரோவைப் பின்பற்றும், தற்கால அறிவு ஐயுறவுக் கோட்பாட்டாளர், கிறித்தவசமய உண்மைகளில் ஐயுறவு கொண்டவர், சமய ஐயுறவாளர்

sceptical in Malayalam

ശങ്കിക്കുന്ന, സംശയിക്കുന്ന, വിശ്വസിക്കാത്ത
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sceptical in Kannada
ನಂಬದಿರುವ, ಸಂದೇಹಪಡುವ

Forms of sceptical

comparativemore sceptical
superlativemost sceptical

Origin of sceptical

By surface analysis, sceptic + -al.

Questions about sceptical

What does sceptical mean?
Sceptical means commonwealth standard spelling of skeptical.
What is sceptical in Hindi?
Sceptical in Hindi is शक्की (śakkī). See Sceptical meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is sceptical?
Sceptical is an adjective.

Words near sceptical in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sceptical (page history and authors); शक्की (Hindi) (page history and authors); sceptical (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sceptical (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sceptical (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sceptical (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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