Skeptic is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SKEPTIC in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a person who doubts generally accepted ideas, also SCEPTIC
• a person inclined to question or doubt accepted opinions.
• a person who doubts the truth of Christianity and other religions; an atheist.
• an ancient or modern philosopher who denies the possibility of knowledge, or even rational belief, in some sphere.
• One who is yet undecided as to what is true; one who is looking or inquiring for what is true; an inquirer after facts or reasons.
• A doubter as to whether any fact or truth can be certainly known; a universal doubter; a Pyrrhonist; hence, in modern usage, occasionally, a person who questions whether any truth or fact can be established on philosophical grounds; sometimes, a critical inquirer, in opposition to a dogmatist.
• A person who doubts the existence and perfections of God, or the truth of revelation; one who disbelieves the divine origin of the Christian religion.
• someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs
ADJECTIVE:
• Alt. of Skeptical
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• same as sceptic

Words related to SKEPTIC

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Words that contain SKEPTIC

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How to use SKEPTIC in a sentence

• The skeptic, on the other hand, had been no more thorough.
• The skeptic can never accuse little children of the same theories, philosophies, imaginations and beliefs which are characteristic of older heads.
• Although of excellent character, he was a skeptic, reading the writings of Ingersoll, Paine, and others.
• A well-known skeptic arose and openly renounced his infidelity.
• There was something about the man which spoke of power, and at this moment it seemed clear, even to the skeptic, that it was not wholly human power.
• Woodell was of the kind who, if religious at all, believe without much reasoning, but Harlson had repeated to him the reasoning of the Hindoo skeptic.
• For it is not the life of a great skeptic, but the work of a great believer, which is brought before us in these volumes.
• The tone of Horace is neither that of the cheerless skeptic nor that of the despairing pessimist.
• What, cries the skeptic, what has become of all the hopes of the time when France stood upon the top of golden hours? Do not let us fear the challenge.
• They came forward, the believer with a business-like air, which showed practice, and the young skeptic blushing and ill at ease.
• The skeptic remained scornfully in his seat, and so it was left for the believer to announce that not a cord had been touched.
• The creed would be not merely a record of an old belief to be accepted on authority, but a challenge to the skeptic and the irreligious.
• That creative vision which of old peopled Olympus still peoples the world for her, beholding gods where the skeptic, critical eye sees only a medical doctor and a sick woman.
• Yes, in that tale that is told, in that skeptic history, there is indeed a great moral.
• And the skeptic will please take notice that this extraordinary manifestation is neither enlarged nor magnified, but that it actually happened precisely as is here set down.
• And let us not overlook the fact that in these manifestations there was to be found a palpable reality, a positive marvel, well calculated to lay hold of a skeptic like Clifton.
• I found time to read Plutarch and Josephus, and I was skeptic enough to question in my own mind the passage in Josephus in regard to Jesus.
• Sankey and I were in the north of England, I was preaching one evening, and before me sat a lady who was a skeptic.
• There was no darkening of rooms, no putting of hands under tables, no fear that spirits would refuse to act because of the presence of some skeptic, no trickery of any sort.
• The skeptic returned to France, wrote other works, settled near the romantic shore of Lake Geneva, and returned honored, great, and feasted to Paris.
• And it was known that he was a skeptic, for he made no secret of it.
• No skeptic should forget that the real philosophy of history is the march of Providence through the ages.
• Levalois, who is an avowed skeptic, looks upon a very different scene from that which once so delighted Rousseau.
• On this first day we gathered in the cool of the afternoon about our table of packing-boxes for an event which even I, whose role was that of skeptic, found exciting.
• She would be but skeptic, critic, drone in the busy hive.
• But here is an idea which even you, skeptic as you are, will grant to be not only novel, but great.
• I, for one, am a very skeptic on this subject of manly dislike growing out of female susceptibility, and usually take the conservative view of the question.
• For a moment this master skeptic, Guy, felt that he was committing the greatest folly of his life.
• I was a skeptic and something of a sentimentalist when I started.
• Gautama was a protestant and a reformer, not an agnostic or skeptic.
• Let me prove my power, so that even the most resolute skeptic dare doubt no longer.

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