ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Sceptic

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /ˈskɛp.tɪk/ · Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Sceptic is a noun meaning (British spelling) Alternative spelling of skeptic.

Meaning

(British spelling) Alternative spelling of skeptic.

Example Sentences

As I said, my experience was: I travelled to Russia as a sceptic person and I returned as a European.
The black race, much inferior to the Arab in intellectual power and in steadiness of will, are at the same time free from the sceptic distrustfulness and deep jealousy so common among their white fellow-citizens.
Not long since O’Connell beat the sceptic geologists of the British Association of nonsense and “science” all to nothing by a discovery of fossil Whigs—very extraordinary and ferocious creatures they must have been in their day, which, of course, was far anterior to the creation of the world, according to the Mosaic account, which the bone-grubbing “philosophers” of the chalk formations have so properly exploded.

Word Forms

Synonyms for sceptic

Depending on context, synonyms include skeptic, doubter.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include doubter, skeptic, scepticism, spectre, behaviourist, saviour.

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