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skeptic
/ˈskɛp.tɪk/
noun 2adj 1
Collocations
5ADJ.
dignified, major, stubborn
VERB + SKEPTIC
born, tends
SKEPTIC + NOUN
ghosts, heart, scientist, yetis
PREP.
about, until, up
ADV.
always, maybe, really
Definitions
noun
1
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.[…]
The official account of this meeting was that it ended in failure, with the Taliban's mullah Omar telling General Ahmed, “Osama will be the last person to leave Afghanistan.” The 9/11 skeptics believe that meeting was meant to fail.
2
Someone who is skeptical towards religion.
adj
1
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!”
No one but you can convince my heart, the stubborn, skeptic heart of mine to break the bad habit of breaking away.
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Synonyms
noun — someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs
- sceptic
- doubter
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
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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 n
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The official account of this meeting was that it ended in failure, with the Taliban's mullah Omar telling General Ahmed, “Osama will be the last person to leave Afghanistan.” The 9/11 skeptics believe
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Even skeptics of the policy acknowledge that the Army conducted an exemplary insourcing program that successfully counteracted the Comptroller's budget ...
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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!”
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No one but you can convince my heart, the stubborn, skeptic heart of mine to break the bad habit of breaking away.
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With an increase in divorce rates and half of them growing up with divorced parents, they have a very skeptic view of the concept of ‘happily ever after’.
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