skeptic
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skeptic
- /ˈskɛp.tɪk/
Rhymes with -ɛptɪk
Where it comes from
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”).
noun skeptics · sceptic · sceptick · skeptick
- Someone who doubts beliefs, claims, plans, etc. that are accepted by others as true or appropriate, especially one who habitually does so. But for the fly he might have made me think He had been at his poetry , comparing Nailhead with fly and fly with huckleberry : How like a fly , how very like a fly . But the real fly he missed would never do ; The missed fly made me dangerously skeptic.[…]
- Someone who is skeptical towards religion.
adjective more skeptic · most skeptic · sceptic · sceptick · skeptick
- Skeptical. This view of the Great Pyramid is being adopted by a widening circle of Christian believers, until even a skeptic scientist has dignified it as “the religion of the Pyramid!”
Translations
Talk about this word "skeptic." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/skeptic. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. skeptic. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/skeptic "skeptic." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/skeptic.Cite this
@misc{skeptic_2026,
title = {skeptic},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/skeptic},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
