Definitions for sceptics

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sceptics scep·tic

Spelling: [skep-tik]

IPA: /ˈskɛp tɪk/

Sceptics is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 193 anagrams from letters in sceptics (cceipsst).

Definitions for sceptics

noun

1. a person who questions the validity or authenticity of something purporting to be factual.
2. a person who maintains a doubting attitude, as toward values, plans, statements, or the character of others.
3. a person who doubts the truth of a religion, especially Christianity, or of important elements of it.
4. (initial capital letter) Philosophy. a member of a philosophical school of ancient Greece, the earliest group of which consisted of Pyrrho and his followers, who maintained that real knowledge of things is impossible. any later thinker who doubts or questions the possibility of real knowledge of any kind.
5. a person who questions the validity or authenticity of something purporting to be factual.
6. a person who maintains a doubting attitude, as toward values, plans, statements, or the character of others.
7. a person who doubts the truth of a religion, especially Christianity, or of important elements of it.
8. (initial capital letter) Philosophy. a member of a philosophical school of ancient Greece, the earliest group of which consisted of Pyrrho and his followers, who maintained that real knowledge of things is impossible. any later thinker who doubts or questions the possibility of real knowledge of any kind.

adjective

1. pertaining to skeptics or skepticism; skeptical.
2. (initial capital letter) pertaining to the Skeptics.
3. pertaining to skeptics or skepticism; skeptical.
4. (initial capital letter) pertaining to the Skeptics.

noun, adjective

1. skeptic.
2. skeptic.

Origin of sceptics

1565-75; Late Latin scepticus thoughtful, inquiring (in plural Scepticī the Skeptics) Greek skeptikós, equivalent to sképt(esthai) to consider, examine (akin to skopeîn to look; see Examples for sceptics

It remains to say that he was not disposed, being a sceptic and a scoffer.

Valentin was a sceptic in the severe style of France, and could have no love for priests.

Yes,” said the sceptic, “he is there, and there he will remain for a long time.

The sceptic, disillusioned, is stated to have failed to appreciate the joke!

I was not then a sceptic; I had got as far as disbelief in infant baptism, but no further.

This begets a very natural question; What is meant by a sceptic?

There is no sceptic who does not feel that many have doubted before.

He was a sceptic about everything, even about his own position.

Socrates is nowhere represented to us as a freethinker or sceptic.

Napoleon, himself a sceptic, was cognizant of this slave philosophy.

Socrates is nowhere represented to us as a freethinker or sceptic.

Valentin was a sceptic in the severe style of France, and could have no love for priests.

He was a sceptic about everything, even about his own position.

There is no sceptic who does not feel that many have doubted before.

Napoleon, himself a sceptic, was cognizant of this slave philosophy.

The sceptic, disillusioned, is stated to have failed to appreciate the joke!

Yes,” said the sceptic, “he is there, and there he will remain for a long time.

This begets a very natural question; What is meant by a sceptic?

I was not then a sceptic; I had got as far as disbelief in infant baptism, but no further.

It remains to say that he was not disposed, being a sceptic and a scoffer.