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单词 skeptic
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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
skep•tic or scep•tic /ˈskɛptɪk/USA pronunciation   n. [countable]
  1. one who questions the validity of something that others believe to be factual, esp. religious beliefs.
  2. one who maintains a doubting attitude, as toward values, plans, etc.

adj. 
  1. skeptical.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
skep•tic  (skeptik),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. a person who questions the validity or authenticity of something purporting to be factual.
  2. a person who maintains a doubting attitude, as toward values, plans, statements, or the character of others.
  3. Religiona person who doubts the truth of a religion, esp. Christianity, or of important elements of it.
  4. Philosophy(cap.)
    • a member of a philosophical school of ancient Greece, the earliest group of which consisted of Pyrrho and his followers, who maintained that real knowledge of things is impossible.
    • any later thinker who doubts or questions the possibility of real knowledge of any kind.

adj. 
  1. pertaining to skeptics or skepticism;
    skeptical.
  2. Philosophy(cap.) pertaining to the Skeptics.
Also, sceptic. 
  • Greek skeptikós, equivalent. to sképt(esthai) to consider, examine (akin to skopeîn to look; see -scope) + -ikos -ic
  • Late Latin scepticus thoughtful, inquiring (in plural Scepticī the Skeptics)
  • 1565–75
    • 3.See corresponding entry in Unabridged doubter. See atheist. 
    • 3.See corresponding entry in Unabridged believer.

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
skeptic /ˈskɛptɪk/ n , adj
  1. an archaic, and the usual US, spelling of sceptic
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
scep•tic /ˈskɛptɪk/USA pronunciation   n., adj. 
  1. skeptic.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
scep•tic  (skeptik),USA pronunciation n., adj. 
  1. skeptic.

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
sceptic, archaic US skeptic /ˈskɛptɪk/ n
  1. a person who habitually doubts the authenticity of accepted beliefs
  2. a person who mistrusts people, ideas, etc, in general
  3. a person who doubts the truth of religion, esp Christianity
adj
  1. of or relating to sceptics; sceptical
Etymology: 16th Century: from Latin scepticus, from Greek skeptikos one who reflects upon, from skeptesthai to consider

ˈscepticism, archaic US ˈskepticism n
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