Antonyms for skeptic

Grammar : Noun

Spell : skep-tik

Phonetic Transcription : ˈskɛp tɪk

Definition of skeptic

Origin : also sceptic, 1580s, "member of an ancient Greek school that doubted the possibility of real knowledge," from Middle French sceptique and directly from Latin scepticus "the sect of the Skeptics," from Greek skeptikos (plural Skeptikoi "the Skeptics, followers of Pyrrho"), noun use of adjective meaning "inquiring, reflective" (the name taken by the disciples of the Greek philosopher Pyrrho, who lived c.360-c.270 B.C.E.), related to skeptesthai "to reflect, look, view" (see scope (n.1)).
Skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found. [Miguel de Unamuno, "Essays and Soliloquies," 1924]
The extended sense of "one with a doubting attitude" first recorded 1610s. The sk- spelling is an early 17c. Greek revival and is preferred in U.S. As a verb, scepticize (1690s) failed to catch on.

noun person who is leery, unbelieving

Example sentences :

Bob Wilson the skeptic, looked at his friend again critically.
Extract from : « A Breath of Prairie and other stories » by Will Lillibridge

We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose.
Extract from : « Essays, First Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson

He did not dare to tell her about his visions, for Frau Meiser was a skeptic, in her own way.
Extract from : « The Man With The Broken Ear » by Edmond About

He is what is called a divine nowadays; but used to be called a skeptic.
Extract from : « Put Yourself in His Place » by Charles Reade

And thus the skeptic will be convinced, in spite of his own doctrine.
Extract from : « A Thorny Path [Per Aspera], Complete » by Georg Ebers

Mary Louise raised a skeptic eyebrow at the discredited Zenie.
Extract from : « Stubble » by George Looms

I affirmed that he was not religious in his youth—that he was a skeptic in Indiana.
Extract from : « Abraham Lincoln: Was He A Christian? » by John B. Remsburg

To be a skeptic, is to lack the motives necessary to establish a judgment.
Extract from : « Superstition In All Ages (1732) » by Jean Meslier

But the skeptic will ask how we know that God is truthful, or even that he exists.
Extract from : « Fundamental Philosophy, Vol. I (of 2) » by Jaime Luciano Balmes

A skeptic once determined to expose Trailanga as a charlatan.
Extract from : « Autobiography of a YOGI » by Paramhansa Yogananda

Synonyms for skeptic

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