Sceptical

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Commonwealth standard spelling of skeptical.

    "But regardless of what they made of phrenology, those who saw craniometry as a means of measuring the relative weight of intelligence and emotion in psychological makeup were generally sceptical as to whether, as Blumenbach and Camper believed, humanity had branched from one ancestral pair into varietal types as a result of colonising different continents."

Adjective
  1. 1
    denying or questioning the tenets of especially a religion wordnet
  2. 2
    marked by or given to doubt wordnet

Synonyms

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disbelievingdisbelievingdistrustfuldoubtfuldoubtingfaithless

Example

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"You're wrong. I'm not pessimistic, but sceptical."

Etymology

By surface analysis, sceptic + -al.

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