Skeptical

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  skeptical
       adj 1: denying or questioning the tenets of especially a religion;
              "a skeptical approach to the nature of miracles" [syn:
               {disbelieving}, {sceptical}, {unbelieving}]
       2: marked by or given to doubt; "a skeptical attitude"; "a
          skeptical listener" [syn: {doubting}, {questioning}, {sceptical}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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