Skeptic

['skɛptɪk]

Definition

(noun.) someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs.

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Definition

(n.) One who is yet undecided as to what is true; one who is looking or inquiring for what is true; an inquirer after facts or reasons.

(n.) A doubter as to whether any fact or truth can be certainly known; a universal doubter; a Pyrrhonist; hence, in modern usage, occasionally, a person who questions whether any truth or fact can be established on philosophical grounds; sometimes, a critical inquirer, in opposition to a dogmatist.

(n.) A person who doubts the existence and perfections of God, or the truth of revelation; one who disbelieves the divine origin of the Christian religion.

(a.) Alt. of Skeptical

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Synonyms and Synonymous

n. [Written also Sceptic] [1]. Doubter, pyrrhonist.[2]. Deist, infidel, unbeliever, freethinker.

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Definition

=Sceptic; Skepsis,=Scepsis."

adj. pertaining to the philosophical school in ancient Greece of Pyrrho and his successors: doubting: hesitating to admit the certainty of doctrines or principles: (theol.) doubting or denying the truth of revelation.—ns. Scep′sis Skep′sis philosophic doubt; Scep′tic one who is sceptical: (theol.) one who doubts or denies the existence of God or the truths of revelation.—adv. Scep′tically.—n. Scep′ticalness.—v.i. Scep′ticise to act the sceptic.—n. Scep′ticism that condition in which the mind is before it has arrived at conclusive opinions: doubt: the doctrine that no facts can be certainly known: agnosticism: (theol.) doubt of the existence of God or the truth of revelation.

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