English Explanatory Dictionary

skeptic

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Someone who doubts beliefs, claims, plans, etc. that are accepted by others as true or appropriate, especially one who habitually does so.
  2. Someone who is skeptical towards religion.
adj
  1. Skeptical.

Pronunciation

/ˈskɛp.tɪk/ en-us-skeptic.ogg

Word forms

skeptic skeptics sceptic sceptick skeptick more skeptic most skeptic

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French sceptique (but with a pronunciation closer to that of the Greek etymon), or possibly directly from Late Latin scepticus (originally attested only in the plural Scepticī (“the sect of Skeptics”)), from Ancient Greek σκεπτικός (skeptikós, “thoughtful, inquiring”), from σκέπτομαι (sképtomai, “to consider”), compare to σκοπέω (skopéō, “to view, examine”).

Related words

skeptical skepticism

Derived words

antiskeptic climate skeptic euroskeptic Euro-skeptic nonskeptic pseudoskeptic skepticist skepticize skeptimist skeptopathy technoskeptic
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