sceptical
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sceptical
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By surface analysis, sceptic + -al.
adjective more sceptical · most sceptical
- Commonwealth standard spelling of skeptical. But regardless of what they made of phrenology, those who saw craniometry as a means of measuring the relative weight of intelligence and emotion in psychological makeup were generally sceptical as to whether, as Blumenbach and Camper believed, humanity had branched from one ancestral pair into vari
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Closest in meaning: skeptical, disbelieving, incredulous, unbelieving, doubting, distrustful, questioning, scepticism, doubtful, dubious, suspected, mistrustful, suspicious, unconvinced, cynical, reticent
Talk about this word "sceptical." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/sceptical. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. sceptical. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/sceptical "sceptical." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/sceptical.Cite this
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title = {sceptical},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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