skeptic

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Someone who doubts beliefs, claims, plans, etc. that are accepted by others as true or appropriate, especially one who habitually does so. US
    — But for the fly he might have made me think He had been at his poetry , comparing Nailhead with fly and fly with huckleberry : How like a fly , how very like a fly . But the real fly he missed would never do ; The missed fly made me dangerously skeptic.[…]
  2. Someone who is skeptical towards religion. US
形容词 adj.
  1. Skeptical. US
    — This view of the Great Pyramid is being adopted by a widening circle of Christian believers, until even a skeptic scientist has dignified it as “the religion of the Pyramid!”

词形变化

skeptics plural sceptic alternative,UK sceptick alternative,obsolete skeptick alternative,obsolete more skeptic comparative most skeptic superlative sceptic alternative,UK sceptick alternative,obsolete skeptick alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
antiskeptic climate skeptic euroskeptic Euro-skeptic nonskeptic pseudoskeptic skepticist skepticize skeptimist skeptopathy technoskeptic
相关词
skeptical skepticism

词源

词源 1
Borrowed from Middle French sceptique (but with a pronunciation closer to that of the Greek etymon), or possibly directly from Late Latin scepticus (originally attested only in the plural Scepticī (“the sect of Skeptics”)), from Ancient Greek σκεπτικός (skeptikós, “thoughtful, inquiring”), from σκέπτομαι (sképtomai, “to consider”), compare to σκοπέω (skopéō, “to view, examine”).
词源 2
Borrowed from Middle French sceptique (but with a pronunciation closer to that of the Greek etymon), or possibly directly from Late Latin scepticus (originally attested only in the plural Scepticī (“the sect of Skeptics”)), from Ancient Greek σκεπτικός (skeptikós, “thoughtful, inquiring”), from σκέπτομαι (sképtomai, “to consider”), compare to σκοπέω (skopéō, “to view, examine”).
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