sceptic

Speech parts

1. sceptic - Noun

2. sceptic - Adjective

Meaning

Alt. of Scepticism

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

skeptic doubter misanthrope infidel iconoclast cynic freethinker pagan skeptical agnostic atheist heretic heathen atheistic denier
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Antonyms

apostle parson crusader convert exponent evangelist
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Hypernyms

intellectual intellect

Hyponyms

pessimist doubting Thomas

Examples

I know too much to be a sceptic and too little to be a dogmatist. Pierre Bayle

I am too much of a sceptic to deny the possibility of anything... Thomas Henry Huxley

I am too much of a sceptic to deny the possibility of anything - especially as I am now so much occupied with theology - but I don't see my way to your conclusion. Thomas Henry Huxley

What of Art? -It is a malady. --Love? -An Illusion. --Religion? -The fashionable substitute for Belief. --You are a sceptic. -Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith. --What are you? -To define is to limit. Oscar Wilde

To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian. David Hume

The positive thing about the sceptic is that he considers everything possible! Thomas Mann

Close letter words and terms

sceptered scepterellate scepterless sceptical scepticality sceptically