skeptics
skeptics is the plural of skeptic.
Meaning of skeptic
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
- Someone who is skeptical towards religion.
Questions about skeptics
- What is skeptics the plural of?
- Skeptics is the plural of skeptic.
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