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skeptics

skeptics is the plural 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.

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Questions about skeptics

What is skeptics the plural of?
Skeptics is the plural of skeptic.

Words near skeptics in the dictionary

  1. skepticized
  2. skepticizes
  3. skepticizing
  4. skeptick
  5. skepticks
  6. skeptics
  7. skeptimist
  8. skeptimistic
  9. skeptimists
  10. skeptopathy
  11. Skerlavai

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