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| Main Entry: | skeptical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disbelieving, leery |
| Synonyms: | agnostic, cynical, doubtful, doubting, dubious, hesitating, incredulous, questioning, quizzical, suspicious, unbelieving, aporetic, dissenting, freethinking, mistrustful, scoffing, show-me, unconvinced |
| Antonyms: | believing, devoted, undoubting |
| Main Entry: | cynical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nonbelieving; doubtful |
| Synonyms: | contemptuous, derisive, ironic, misanthropic, mocking, pessimistic, sarcastic, sardonic, scornful, skeptical, sneering, suspicious, unbelieving, wry, misanthropical, scoffing |
| Antonyms: | believing, hopeful, optimistic, trusting, undoubting |
| Main Entry: | disbelieving |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | suspicious, doubting |
| Synonyms: | cagey, cynical, incredulous, leery, questioning, quizzical, skeptical, unbelieving, aporetic, mistrustful, show-me |
| Antonyms: | believing, trusting, unquestioning, unsuspicious |
| Main Entry: | distrustful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disbelieving |
| Synonyms: | cagey, cautious, chary, cynical, doubtful, doubting, dubious, fearful, jealous, leery, skeptical, suspicious, uneasy, uptight, wary, been hit before, mistrustful |
| Antonyms: | assured, believing, certain, faithful, trusting, unsuspecting, trustful |
| Main Entry: | faithless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disloyal |
| Synonyms: | capricious, changeable, cheating, deceitful, dishonest, double-dealing*, doubting, dubious, false, fickle, inconstant, perfidious, recreant, skeptical, traitorous, treacherous, two-faced*, two-timing, unbelieving, unfaithful, unreliable, unstable, untrue, untrustworthy, untruthful, wavering, changeful, double-crossing, fluctuating, unconverted, unloyal |
| Antonyms: | believing, constant, faithful, loyal, reliable, true |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | godless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | without a god or divine faith |
| Synonyms: | agnostic, atheistic, iconoclastic, irreligious, skeptical, adiamorphic, freethinking, nonbelieving, undogmatic |
| Antonyms: | godly, religious |
| Main Entry: | heretical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unorthodox |
| Synonyms: | agnostic, apostate, atheistic, disagreeing, dissident, heterodox, iconoclastic, idolatrous, impious, infidel, miscreant, nonconformist, sectarian, skeptical, unbelieving, differing, dissenting, dissentive, freethinking, misbelieving, revisionist, schismatic |
| Antonyms: | orthodox |
| Main Entry: | hesitant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | uncertain, waiting |
| Synonyms: | afraid, averse, backward, delaying, diffident, disinclined, doubtful, doubting, half-hearted, halting, hesitating, indecisive, irresolute, lazy, loath, reluctant, shy, skeptical, slow, tentative, timid, unpredictable, unsure, unwilling, vacillating, wavering, dawdling, faltering, hanging back, lacking confidence, uneager |
| Antonyms: | certain, definite, resolute, sure, unwavering, unhesitant |
| Main Entry: | incredulous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unbelieving |
| Synonyms: | disbelieving, distrustful, doubtful, doubting, dubious, hesitant, questioning, quizzical, skeptical, suspect, suspicious, uncertain, unsatisfied, wary, mistrustful, show-me, unconvinced |
| Notes: | incredible means 'unbelievable' and incredulous means 'unbelieving' |
| Antonyms: | believing, convinced, credulous |
| Main Entry: | jaundiced |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tainted, prejudiced |
| Synonyms: | biased, bigoted, bitter, colored, cynical, distorted, envious, hostile, intolerant, jealous, one-sided, opprobrious, partial, partisan, prepossessed, skeptical, spiteful, suspicious, unfair, unfriendly, yellow, disapproving, grudging, preconceived, resentful, tendentious, unindifferent, warped |
| Antonyms: | clean, fresh, unbiased, unprejudiced |
| Main Entry: | jealous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | desirous; wary |
| Synonyms: | anxious, apprehensive, attentive, covetous, demanding, doubting, envious, grasping, green-eyed, guarded, intolerant, invidious, jaundiced, possessive, protective, questioning, rival, skeptical, solicitous, suspicious, vigilant, watchful, zealous, begrudging, emulous, envying, grabby, grudging, mistrustful, monopolizing, possessory, resentful |
| Antonyms: | confident, content, satisfied, trusting, unresentful |
| Main Entry: | leery |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | suspicious |
| Synonyms: | careful, cautious, chary, distrustful, doubting, dubious, on one's guard, shy, skeptical, uncertain, unsure, wary |
| Antonyms: | certain, sure, unwary |
| Main Entry: | quizzical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | appearing confused or curious |
| Synonyms: | amusing, arch, derisive, disbelieving, eccentric, incredulous, inquiring, inquisitive, mocking, odd, quaint, queer, questioning, sardonic, searching, skeptical, supercilious, suspicious, teasing, unbelieving, unusual, aporetic, bantering, probing, show-me |
| Antonyms: | certain, understanding |
| Main Entry: | sectarian |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | narrow-minded, exclusive |
| Synonyms: | bigoted, clannish, dissident, doctrinaire, dogmatic, fanatic, fanatical, insular, limited, local, nonconforming, nonconformist, parochial, partisan, provincial, rigid, skeptical, splinter, cliquish, factional, hidebound, schismatic, small-town |
| Antonyms: | broad, broad-minded, liberal, nonsectarian |
| Main Entry: | unsure |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | doubtful, insecure |
| Synonyms: | borderline, distrustful, dubious, fly-by-night*, hesitant, iffy*, indecisive, indeterminate, irresolute, lacking, open, problematic, shaky, skeptical, suspicious, uncertain, unclear, undecided, undependable, unreliable, unstable, untrustworthy, vacillating, wavering, weak, wobbly, betwixt and between, fluctuant, in a quandary, mistrustful, rootless, touch and go, unassured, unconfident, unconvinced, untrusty, up for grabs, wimpy |
| Antonyms: | certain, definite, secure, sure, undoubted |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | doubting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | questioning |
| Synonyms: | doubtful, dubious, skeptical, suspicious |
| Main Entry: | heterodox |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | heretical |
| Synonyms: | dissident, doubtful, iconoclastic, skeptical |
| Main Entry: | dubious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | doubtful |
| Synonyms: | arguable, chancy, debatable, diffident, disputable, equivocal, far-fetched, fishy*, fly-by-night*, hesitant, iffy*, improbable, indecisive, moot, open, perplexed, problematic, questionable, reluctant, shady, skeptical, suspect, suspicious, uncertain, unclear, undecided, undependable, unlikely, unreliable, unsure, untrustworthy, wavering, dubitable, mootable, touch and go, trustless, unassured, unconvinced, untrusty |
| Antonyms: | certain, definite, doubtless, positive, reliable, sure, trustworthy, trusty, undoubtful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sophisticated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cosmopolitan, cultured |
| Synonyms: | adult, artificial, blasé, bored, cool*, cynical, disenchanted, disillusioned, experienced, into*, jaded, knowing, laid-back*, mature, practical, practiced, refined, seasoned, sharp, skeptical, smooth, studied, suave, svelte, urbane, well-bred, with it*, worldly, been around, citified, couth, cultivated, in, in the know, jet-set, mondaine, on to, schooled, stagy, streetwise, switched on, uptown, wise to, wised up, world-weary, worldly wise |
| Antonyms: | naive, uncultivated, uncultured, unrefined, unsophisticated |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | suspicious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | distrustful |
| Synonyms: | apprehensive, cagey, careful, cautious, doubtful, green-eyed*, incredulous, jealous, leery, questioning, quizzical, skeptical, suspect, unbelieving, uptight*, wary, watchful, wondering, in doubt, mistrustful, not born yesterday on the lookout*, suspecting, without belief, without faith |
| Antonyms: | innocent, trustworthy, trusty |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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