[syn: doubting, questioning, skeptical, sceptical]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Skeptic \Skep"tic\, Skeptical \Skep"tic*al\, a. [Written also
sceptic, sceptical.]
1. Of or pertaining to a sceptic or skepticism; characterized
by skepticism; hesitating to admit the certainly of
doctrines or principles; doubting of everything.
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2. (Theol.) Doubting or denying the truth of revelation, or
the sacred Scriptures.
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The skeptical system subverts the whole foundation
of morals. --R. Hall.
[1913 Webster] -- Skep"tac*al*ly, adv. --
Skep"tic*al*ness, n.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
skeptical
adj 1: denying or questioning the tenets of especially a
religion; "a skeptical approach to the nature of
miracles" [syn: disbelieving, skeptical, sceptical,
unbelieving]
2: marked by or given to doubt; "a skeptical attitude"; "a
skeptical listener" [syn: doubting, questioning,
skeptical, sceptical]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
69 Moby Thesaurus words for "skeptical":
Humean, Pyrrhonic, agnostic, ambiguous, capricious, cautious,
chancy, changeable, cynical, dicey, disbelieving,
disinclined to believe, disposed to doubt, dissenting, distrustful,
doubtful, doubting, dubious, equivocal, erratic, fickle,
freethinking, from Missouri, guarded, hard of belief, hesitant,
hesitating, impervious to persuasion, in doubt, incalculable,
inconvincible, incredulous, indecisive, indemonstrable, irresolute,
leery, mistrustful, mistrusting, polysemous, questioning,
scrupulous, shy, shy of belief, skeptic, suspecting, suspicious,
touch-and-go, unaccountable, unbelieving, uncertain, unconfirmable,
unconvinced, unconvincible, uncredulous, undivinable,
unforeseeable, unpersuadable, unpersuaded, unpersuasible,
unpredictable, unprovable, unsure, untrusting, unverifiable,
unwilling to accept, variable, wary, wavering, whimsical