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Definition of Skeptical

1. Adjective. Denying or questioning the tenets of especially a religion. "A skeptical approach to the nature of miracles"

2. Adjective. Marked by or given to doubt. "A skeptical listener"

Definition of Skeptical

1. Adjective. Having, or expressing doubt; questioning. ¹

2. Adjective. Of or relating to skepticism or the skeptics. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Skeptical

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Skeptical

1. 1. Of or pertaining to a sceptic or skepticism; characterised by skepticism; hesitating to admit the certainly of doctrines or principles; doubting of everything. 2. Doubting or denying the truth of revelation, or the sacred Scriptures. "The skeptical system subverts the whole foundation of morals." (R. Hall) Skep"tacally, Skep"ticalness. Origin: Written also sceptic, sceptical. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Skeptical

skenes skenned skenning skens skeo skeos skep skepful skepfuls skepped

skepping skeps skepsis skepsises skeptic skeptical (current term) skeptically skepticalness skepticism skepticisms

skepticist skepticize skepticized skepticizes skepticizing skeptick skeptics skeptimist skeptimistic skeptimists

Literary usage of Skeptical

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A History of Philosophy by Frank Thilly (1914)
"After Timon the skeptical school was absorbed by the Platonic Academy, and did not emerge again as an independent * Denis, Histoire <ies theories et de» ..."

2. A History of Philosophy by Frank Thilly (1914)
"After Timón the skeptical school was absorbed by the Platonic Academy, and did not emerge again as an independent * Denis. Histoire des théories et dea ..."

3. An Epitome of the History of Philosophy: Being the Work Adopted by the by Louis Eugène Marie Bautain, Caleb Sprague Henry (1842)
"skeptical SCHOOL. Historical Notices. IN proportion as doubt gained entrance into the schools of philosophy, under different forms and in different degrees, ..."

4. The Methodist Review (1882)
"RELATION OF THE PULPIT TO skeptical SCIENTIFIC THEORIES. WITH the facts of science theologians have no dispute. But the theories are often widely divergent ..."

5. An Epitome of the History of Philosophy: Being the Work Adopted by the by Caleb Sprague Henry (1869)
"skeptical SCHOOL. Historical Notices. IN proportion as doubt gained entrance into the schools of philosophy, under different forms and in different degrees, ..."

6. An Epitome of the History of Philosophy: Being the Work Adopted by the by Louis Bautain, Caleb Sprague Henry (1841)
"skeptical SCHOOL. Historical Notices. IN proportion as doubt gained entrance into the schools of philosophy, under different forms and in different degrees, ..."

7. The Bookman (1903)
""I do not say that Omar was a plagiarist, but I say this : Just as Voltaire, for instance, acquired most of his liberal and skeptical views from Hobbs ..."

8. Germany; Its Universities, Theology and Religion: With Sketches of Neander by Philip Schaff (1857)
"THE skeptical ERA OF GERMANY. Tbo great Apostacy to Rationalism and Infidelity—Its various Causes—The German Classics in their relation to ..."

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