People are often quite skeptical about things unless given believable proof.
Source: tatoeba (1988)
Skeptical
//ˈskɛptɪkəl//
Synonyms for "skeptical" (77 found)
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Closest matches (16)
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Related words (38)
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Synonyms
2 entriesderived
1 entriesrelated to
5 entriessimilar
2 entriesTranslations
58 translations across 29 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- شُكُوكِيّ adj (related to skepticism)
Armenian
4 entries- թերահավատ adj (having, or expressing doubt)
- կասկածամիտ adj (having, or expressing doubt)
- կասկածապաշտական adj (related to skepticism)
- սկեպտիկ adj (having, or expressing doubt)
Bulgarian
1 entries- скептичен adj (having, or expressing doubt)
Catalan
2 entries- escèptic adj (having, or expressing doubt)
- escèptic adj (related to skepticism)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 怀疑论的 adj (related to skepticism)
- 持有怀疑的 adj (having, or expressing doubt)
Czech
2 entries- skeptický adj (having, or expressing doubt)
- skeptický adj (related to skepticism)
Danish
2 entries- skeptisk adj (having, or expressing doubt)
- skeptisk adj (related to skepticism)
Dutch
2 entries- sceptisch adj (having, or expressing doubt)
- sceptisch adj (related to skepticism)
Esperanto
2 entries- nekredema adj (having, or expressing doubt)
- skeptika adj (related to skepticism)
Finnish
2 entries- skeptinen adj (having, or expressing doubt)
- skeptinen adj (related to skepticism)
French
3 entries- dubitatif adj (having, or expressing doubt)
- sceptique adj (having, or expressing doubt)
- sceptique adj (related to skepticism)
Galician
2 entries- escéptico adj (having, or expressing doubt)
- escéptico adj (related to skepticism)
German
2 entries- skeptisch adj (having, or expressing doubt)
- skeptisch adj (related to skepticism)
Hungarian
4 entries- kételkedő adj (having, or expressing doubt)
- kétkedő adj (having, or expressing doubt)
- szkeptikus adj (having, or expressing doubt)
- szkeptikus adj (related to skepticism)
Icelandic
1 entries- vantrúaður adj (having, or expressing doubt)
Irish
1 entries- díchreidmheach adj (having, or expressing doubt)
Italian
1 entries- scettico adj (having, or expressing doubt)
Māori
1 entries- hokirua adj (having, or expressing doubt)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- skeptisk adj (having, or expressing doubt)
- skeptisk adj (related to skepticism)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- skeptisk adj (having, or expressing doubt)
- skeptisk adj (related to skepticism)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- اینانمز adj (having, or expressing doubt)
Polish
2 entries- sceptyczny adj (having, or expressing doubt)
- sceptyczny adj (related to skepticism)
Portuguese
4 entries- céptico adj (having, or expressing doubt)
- céptico adj (related to skepticism)
- cético adj (having, or expressing doubt)
- cético adj (related to skepticism)
Russian
2 entries- скепти́ческий adj (having, or expressing doubt)
- скепти́ческий adj (related to skepticism)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- teagmhach adj (having, or expressing doubt)
Spanish
2 entries- escéptico adj (having, or expressing doubt)
- escéptico adj (related to skepticism)
Swedish
2 entries- skeptisk adj (having, or expressing doubt)
- skeptisk adj (related to skepticism)
Turkish
2 entries- kuşkucu adj (having, or expressing doubt)
- septik adj (having, or expressing doubt)
Ukrainian
2 entries- скепти́чний adj (having, or expressing doubt)
- скепти́чний adj (related to skepticism)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
Tom remained skeptical.
Source: tatoeba (1157606)
I'm skeptical when I hear someone claim to speak more than five languages fluently.
Source: tatoeba (1230620)
His skeptical friend said that a truly productive space industry may be hundreds, if not thousands, of years from now.
Source: tatoeba (1468758)
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