skeptic
/ˈskɛp.tɪk/
skeptic noun: someone who doubts beliefs, claims, plans, etc. that are accepted by others as true or appropriate, especially one who habitually does so.
Noun
skeptic (plural skeptics)
- 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
- The official account of this meeting was that it ended in failure, with the Taliban's mullah Omar telling General Ahmed, “Osama will be the last person to leave Afghanistan.” The 9/11 skeptics believe that meeting was meant to fail.2004, Anthony Lappé, Stephen Marshall, Ian Inaba, True Lies, Plume Books
- Someone who is skeptical towards religion.
Adjective
skeptic (comparative more skeptic, superlative most skeptic)
- Skeptical.
- This view of the Great Pyramid is being adopted by a widening circle of Christian believers, until even a skeptic scientist has dignified it as “the religion of the Pyramid!”1877 November 28, The Lancaster Daily; quoted in Joseph A[ugustus] Seiss, A Miracle in Stone: or The Great Pyramid of Egypt, Philadelphia, Pa.: Porter & Coates, […], 1877, page 239
- No one but you can convince my heart, the stubborn, skeptic heart of mine to break the bad habit of breaking away.2019, “Heart’s Confessions” by Rawda el-Haj, quotee, translated by Adil Babikir, Modern Sudanese Poetry: An Anthology, Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page xxvii
skeptic meaning in Tamil, Bengali and Tagalog
skeptic in Tamil
- கூற்று முதலியவற்றிலோ நம்பிக்கை இல்லாதவர், அவநம்பிக்கை இயல்பு உள்ளவர், பகுத்தறிவாதி, நாத்திகர், சந்தேகப் பேர் வழி, ஐயப்படும்
skeptic in Bengali
- সংশয়বাদী, সন্দেহপ্রবণ ব্যক্তি
skeptic in Tagalog
- someone who doubts beliefs and claims
- mapangila, taong mapangila
Examples of skeptic in a sentence
- Even skeptics of the policy acknowledge that the Army conducted an exemplary insourcing program that successfully counteracted the Comptroller's budget ...2011 June 23, United States House Committee on Small Business, Subcommittee on Contracting and Workforce, Insourcing Gone Awry: Outsourcing...
- The Buddha's perfect body is particularly important in these tropes, and it serves to persuade skeptics of his claims to ultimate authority.2012, John Powers, A Bull of a Man, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 22:
- Skeptics of this alliance were proven right because this partnership lasted only for a few years.2013, Dr Helga Turku, Isolationist States in an Interdependent World, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., →ISBN, page 113:
- With an increase in divorce rates and half of them growing up with divorced parents, they have a very skeptic view of the concept of ‘happily ever after’.2021, Madhavi Menon, “The Mystery of Love”, in Nirmal Rathore, compiler, Beginning, Suvidhi Publishing House, →ISBN, page 45:
Forms of skeptic
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | skeptics |
| alternative UK | sceptic |
| alternative form (obsolete) | sceptick |
| alternative form (obsolete) | skeptick |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more skeptic |
| superlative | most skeptic |
Origin of skeptic
Borrowed from Middle French sceptique (but with a pronunciation closer to that of the Latin etymon), or possibly directly from Late Latin scepticus (originally attested only in the plural Scepticī (“the sect of Skeptics”)), from Proto-Italic *spektos (“see, observing”), from *speḱ- (“to see”), compare to σκοπέω (skopéō, “to view, examine”).
Words formed from skeptic
Words that rhyme with skeptic
Questions about skeptic
- What does skeptic mean?
- Skeptic means someone who doubts beliefs, claims, plans, etc. that are accepted by others as true or appropriate, especially one who habitually does so.
- What is skeptic in Tamil?
- Skeptic in Tamil is கூற்று முதலியவற்றிலோ நம்பிக்கை இல்லாதவர், அவநம்பிக்கை இயல்பு உள்ளவர், பகுத்தறிவாதி. See Skeptic meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use skeptic in a sentence?
- Even skeptics of the policy acknowledge that the Army conducted an exemplary insourcing program that successfully counteracted the Comptroller's budget ...
- What part of speech is skeptic?
- Skeptic can be a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce skeptic?
- Skeptic is pronounced /ˈskɛp.tɪk/.
- What is the plural of skeptic?
- The plural of skeptic is skeptics.
Words near skeptic in the dictionary
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