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skeptical

adjective

1 skeptical

Denying or questioning the tenets of especially a religion:
— A skeptical approach to the nature of miracles.

synonyms: disbelieving, sceptical, unbelieving.

Roget 989: irreligious; indevout; undevout; devoutless, godless, graceless; ungodly, unholy, unsanctified, unhallowed; atheistic, without God.    skeptical, ... show more

Roget 485: unbelieving; skeptical, sceptical.    incredulous as to, skeptical as to; distrustful as to, shy as to, suspicious of; doubting etc. v.. doubtful etc. (uncertain) ... show more

Roget 487: incredulous, skeptical, unbelieving, inconvincible; hard of belief, shy of belief, disposed to doubt, indisposed to believe; suspicious, scrupulous, distrustful, cynical;

2 skeptical

Marked by or given to doubt:
— A skeptical attitude.
— A skeptical listener.

synonyms: doubting, questioning, sceptical.

Polish: wątpiący


Moby thesaurus: Humean, Pyrrhonic, agnostic, ambiguous, capricious, cautious, chancy, changeable, cynical, dicey, disbelieving, disinclined to believe, disposed to doubt, dissenting, distrustful, doubtful, doubting, dubious, equivocal, erratic ... show more.

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