| Main Entry: |
skeptic |
| Part of Speech: |
noun |
| Definition: |
person who is leery, unbelieving |
Synonyms: |
agnostic,
apostate,
atheist,
cynic, disbeliever, dissenter, doubter, doubting Thomas, freethinker,
heathen,
heretic, infidel, materialist,
misanthrope, misbeliever, nihilist, pagan,
pessimist, profaner, questioner, rationalist, scoffer, unbeliever
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| Notes: |
cynics doubt because they question motives (Cynic was first a school of philosophy expressing contempt for wealth and pleasure; the word cynic comes from Greek cyniko 'doglike'); skeptics doubt reports of what they hear or read |
Antonyms: |
believer, devotee, disciple
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