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questioner
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inquirer |
| Synonyms: | analyst, auditor, checker, examiner, inquisitor, interrogator, investigator, prober, querier, quester, researcher, scrutinizer |
| 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 |
| 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, optimist |
| 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: | doubting Thomas |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | skeptic |
| Synonyms: | disbeliever, doubter, questioner, unbeliever |
| Main Entry: | iconoclast |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | detractor |
| Synonyms: | critic, cynic, denouncer, dissenter, dissident, heretic, image-breaker, non-conformist, nonbeliever, questioner, radical, rebel, revolutionist, ruiner, sceptic, unbeliever |
| Main Entry: | skeptic |
| 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: | examiner |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tester |
| Synonyms: | analyst, appraiser, assayer, auditor, checker, inquirer, inquisitor, inspector, interrogator, investigator, prober, proctor, questioner, quizmaster, quizzer, researcher, reviewer, scrutinizer |
| Main Entry: | interlocutor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | conversationalist |
| Synonyms: | dialogist, interrogator, interviewer, questioner, speaker, talker |
| Main Entry: | interrogator |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inquisitor |
| Synonyms: | asker, investigator, prober, questioner, researcher |
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