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skeptic
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. 1 Someone who habitually doubts beliefs and claims presented as accepted by others, requiring strong evidence before accepting any belief or claim. 2 Someone undecided as to what is true. 3 A type of agnostic n. 1 Someone who habitually doubts beliefs ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also sceptic , 1580s, "member of an ancient Greek school that doubted the possibility of real knowledge," from Middle French sceptique and directly from Latin scepticus "the sect of the Skeptics," from Greek skeptikos (plural Skeptikoi "the Skeptics, followers ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Skeptic \Skep"tic\, n. [Gr. skeptiko`s thoughtful, reflective, fr. ske`ptesqai to look carefully or about, to view, consider: cf. L. scepticus, F. sceptique. See Scope .] One who is yet undecided as to what is true; one who is looking or inquiring for what ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs [syn: sceptic , doubter ]
Usage examples of skeptic.
In each case, the skeptics at the time grumbled that these theories were being oversold and that the results were either wrong or obvious.
The Herbartians have the hardihood, in this age of moral skeptics, to believe not only in moral example but also in moral teaching.
He may ultimately have become what a theologian would call a skeptic Pyrrhonist, but even his disbeliefs he did not force upon anyone.
Shem Tov the Sephardi started as a philosophical skeptic who had examined other systems first.
Safwan, the incredible images captured by combat videographers on the ground - which confirmed for believers and skeptics both that a new era had dawned, and there would be no going back.
They are always there behind the floor-to-ceiling windows, skeptics before the cadences of life, and in winter they will still be there, in place, wearing hats and coats indoors on the coldest nights, tossing cards through the dense smoke.
If he started spouting lies about his hopes of debating the skeptics of the artificial life mafia in some future issue of Cellular Automaton World, she'd probably start screaming.
Maurine, broad-mindedly, even told him that she would not object to the use of "the Skeptic form of services.
They appealed to Ish, who was something of a leader, especially in things intellectual, Maurine, broad-mindedly, even told him that she would not object to the use of "the Skeptic form of services.
That is why I often find it necessary to depend on reason to convince skeptics of the validity of my case.
The hunter's bone spades are used to dig up the root, which is forked and has something of a human shape -- skeptics point to the shape as the basis of an ignorant folk religion -- and the small pliable knives are used to clean the tiny tendrils called beards, which are supposed to be crucial to the curative powers.
The hunter's bone spades are used to dig up the root, which is forked and has something of a human shape skeptics point to the shape as the basis of an ignorant folk religion and the small pliable knives are used to clean the tiny tendrils called beards, which are supposed to be crucial to the curative powers.
There were diverse personalities alive within the collective boundaries of the plasma cloud: long-winded bores, excited explorers, passionate visionaries, skeptics, cranks, poets, philosophers, fussbudgets, free thinkers, reactionaries, radicals, and scientists.
Skeptics, though, said the hat tip was just a trick Onofre had learned to do by wiggling his scalp.
Vienna meteorological experts ruled out the possibility that the sighting was any normal natural phenomena, but skeptics viewed the photograph itself with a hypercritical eye.