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skeptic skep·tic

Spelling: [skep-tik]

IPA: /ˈskɛp tɪk/

Skeptic is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 201 anagrams from letters in skeptic (ceikpst).

Definitions for skeptic

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.

adjective

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

Origin of skeptic

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 skeptic

Given this tiny pool of survivors, a skeptic might ask why the story of the Mandans should matter to the contemporary reader?

In truth, I was a skeptic from day one, let the record show.

I was a skeptic, but lo and behold, the Judiciary Committee actually acted like the old Senate for a week.

We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose.

He did not dare to tell her about his visions, for Frau Meiser was a skeptic, in her own way.

And thus the skeptic will be convinced, in spite of his own doctrine.

Bob Wilson the skeptic, looked at his friend again critically.

He is what is called a divine nowadays; but used to be called a skeptic.

If you're a skeptic like me, this entire process sounds like one massive shake of the head from start to finish.

Abrams is a skeptic, which he is well within his rights to be (a position this writer shares).