adj
Meaning 1
Skeptical.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
skeptic
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈskɛp.tɪk/
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rhymes with -ɛptɪk
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noun
Meaning 2
Someone who doubts beliefs, claims, plans, etc. that are accepted by others as true or appropriate, especially one who habitually does so.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
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noun
Meaning 3
Someone who is skeptical towards religion.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
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noun
Meaning 4
someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: sceptic, doubter
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: intellectual, intellect
Narrower terms: doubting Thomas, pessimist
History
Etymology
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”).
Across languages
Translations
34 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: թերահավատ (tʻerahavat) — someone who doubts beliefs and claims
- Armenian: սկեպտիկ (skeptik) — someone who doubts beliefs and claims
- Bulgarian: скептик (skeptik) — someone who doubts beliefs and claims
- Catalan: escèptic — someone who doubts beliefs and claims
- Czech: skeptik — someone who doubts beliefs and claims
- Dutch: scepticus — someone who doubts beliefs and claims
- Esperanto: skeptikulo — someone who doubts beliefs and claims
- Estonian: skeptik — someone who doubts beliefs and claims
- Finnish: skeptikko — someone who doubts beliefs and claims
- French: sceptique — someone who doubts beliefs and claims
- Galician: escéptico — someone who doubts beliefs and claims
- German: Skeptiker — someone who doubts beliefs and claims
- German: Skeptikerin — someone who doubts beliefs and claims
- Greek: σκεπτικός (skeptikós) — someone who doubts beliefs and claims
- Hebrew: ספקן (safkan) — someone who doubts beliefs and claims
- Hungarian: szkeptikus — someone who doubts beliefs and claims
- Irish: amhrasán — someone who doubts beliefs and claims
- Italian: scettico — someone who doubts beliefs and claims
- Italian: scettica — someone who doubts beliefs and claims
- Māori: kaiwhakahāwea — someone who doubts beliefs and claims
- Polish: sceptyk — someone who doubts beliefs and claims
- Polish: sceptyczka — someone who doubts beliefs and claims
- Portuguese: cético — someone who doubts beliefs and claims
- Portuguese: cética — someone who doubts beliefs and claims
- Russian: ске́птик (sképtik) — someone who doubts beliefs and claims
- Scottish Gaelic: neo-chreidmheach — someone who doubts beliefs and claims
- Spanish: escéptico — someone who doubts beliefs and claims
- Spanish: escéptica — someone who doubts beliefs and claims
- Swedish: skeptiker — someone who doubts beliefs and claims
- Tagalog: mapangila — someone who doubts beliefs and claims
- Tagalog: taong mapangila — someone who doubts beliefs and claims
- Turkish: şüpheci — someone who doubts beliefs and claims
- Ottoman Turkish: شبههجی (şübheci) — someone who doubts beliefs and claims
- Ukrainian: ске́птик (sképtyk) — someone who doubts beliefs and claims