skeptic

Other spellings

• sceptic (UK)

Pronunciation

•  Audio (US)^{help, file}

Noun

Singular skeptic

Plural skeptics

1. A skeptic is a person who doesn't believe things before seeing very good reasons to believe them.

   I'm a skeptic, so I don't believe things just because they're in the newspaper.

Related words

• skeptical
• skepticism