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Meaning of Skeptic | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
ˈskɛp.tɪk

Definitions

  1. Someone who doubts beliefs, claims, plans, etc. that are accepted by others as true or appropriate, especially one who habitually does so.
    US
  2. Someone who is skeptical towards religion.
    US

Equivalents

العربية شكاك
Català escèptic
Čeština skeptik
Ελληνικά σκεπτικός
Français sceptique
Gaeilge amhrasán
Gàidhlig neo-chreidmheach
Magyar szkeptikus
Հայերեն թերահավատ
Italiano scettica scettico
Nederlands scepticus
Português cética cético
Русский скептик
Svenska skeptiker
Türkçe şüpheci
Українська скептик

Examples

“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.[…]”
“The official account of this meeting was that it ended in failure, with the Taliban's mullah Omar telling General Ahmed, “Osama will be the last person to leave Afghanistan.” The 9/11 skeptics believe that meeting was meant to fail.”
“Even skeptics of the policy acknowledge that the Army conducted an exemplary insourcing program that successfully counteracted the Comptroller's budget ...”
“The Buddha's perfect body is particularly important in these tropes, and it serves to persuade skeptics of his claims to ultimate authority.”
“Skeptics of this alliance were proven right because this partnership lasted only for a few years. Once Albania broke off diplomatic relations […]”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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