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| Main Entry: |
skeptic
 [skep-tik] 
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is leery, unbelieving |
| Synonyms: | agnostic, apostate, atheist, cynic, disbeliever, dissenter, doubter, doubting Thomas, freethinker, heathen, heretic, infidel, materialist, misanthrope, misbeliever, nihilist, pagan, pessimist, profaner, questioner, rationalist, scoffer, unbeliever |
| Notes: | cynics doubt because they question motives (Cynic was first a school of philosophy expressing contempt for wealth and pleasure; the word cynic comes from Greek cyniko 'doglike'); skeptics doubt reports of what they hear or read |
| Antonyms: | believer, devotee, disciple |
| Main Entry: | atheist |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonbeliever |
| Synonyms: | agnostic, free thinker, heathen, infidel, irreligionist, pagan, skeptic |
| Main Entry: | cynic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonbeliever |
| Synonyms: | carper, caviler, detractor, disbeliever, doubter, doubting Thomas, egoist, egotist, flouter, misanthrope, misanthropist, misogamist, misogynist, mocker, pessimist, questioner, satirist, scoffer, skeptic, sneerer, unbeliever |
| Antonyms: | believer, optimist |
Example Sentences
- On the other hand, the skeptic in me can't stop thinking about how expensive a proposition this is.
- My own extensive research and reading puts me conclusively in the skeptic category.
- The auto industry had to dismiss him as a witness and bring in another climate skeptic scientist.
| Main Entry: | doubter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who does not believe |
| Synonyms: | agnostic, cynic, disbeliever, headshaker, questioner, skeptic, unbeliever, zetetic |
| Antonyms: | believer, truster |
| Main Entry: | heathen |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not believing in Christian god |
| Synonyms: | agnostic, atheistic, barbarian, godless, idolatrous, infidel, irreligious, nonbeliever, pagan, profane, skeptic |
| Antonyms: | godly, religious |
| Main Entry: | hermit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who chose to live alone |
| Synonyms: | anchorite, ascetic, eremite, misanthrope, outside of human society anchoret, pillarist, recluse, skeptic, solitaire, solitarian, solitary, stylite |
| Main Entry: | misanthrope |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who hates others |
| Synonyms: | cynic, doubter, egoist, egotist, hater, isolate, loner, misanthropist, recluse, skeptic |
| Antonyms: | humanitarian, philanthropist |
| Main Entry: | pagan |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who does not believe in an orthodox religion |
| Synonyms: | agnostic, atheist, doubter, freethinker, heathen, heretic, iconoclast, idolater, idolist, infidel, paganist, pantheist, polytheist, scoffer, skeptic, unbeliever |
| Antonyms: | Christian, Jew, believer |
| Main Entry: | dissenter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dissident |
| Synonyms: | heretic, nonconformist, objector, protester, rebel, separatist, skeptic |
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