Crossword-Solution: SKEPTIC
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Skeptic | n. | One who is yet undecided as to what is true; one who is looking or inquiring for what is true; an inquirer after facts or reasons. |
| Skeptic | n. | A doubter as to whether any fact or truth can be certainly known; a universal doubter; a Pyrrhonist; hence, in modern usage, occasionally, a person who questions whether any truth or fact can be established on philosophical grounds; sometimes, a critical inquirer, in opposition to a dogmatist. |
| Skeptic | n. | A person who doubts the existence and perfections of God, or the truth of revelation; one who disbelieves the divine origin of the Christian religion. |
| Skeptic | a. | Alt. of Skeptical |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SKEPTIC | anagram | PICKETS |
We have 28 clues for the answer “SKEPTIC”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Hard-to-convince sort | 1 answer |
| Thomas, for one | 1 answer |
| Somebody from Missouri. | 1 answer |
| Serious questioner | 1 answer |
| Questioning sort | 1 answer |
| Pyrrho, notably | 1 answer |
| Pyrrho, for one | 1 answer |
| Person "from Missouri." | 1 answer |
| One with reservations | 1 answer |
| One who's tough to sell | 1 answer |
| One not easily convinced | 1 answer |
| One looking askance | 1 answer |
| Legendary Missourian. | 1 answer |
| Incredulous one | 1 answer |
| Doubting sort | 1 answer |
| "Show me" type | 1 answer |
| someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs | 2 answers |
| One doubting an accepted truth | 2 answers |
| MISTRUSTFUL person | 2 answers |
| Cynical one | 3 answers |
| Scoffer. | 11 answers |
| Doubting Thomas | 14 answers |
| DISCOURAGING person | 15 answers |
| DESPONDENT person | 17 answers |
| Non-believer | 20 answers |
| Unbeliever | 25 answers |
| Freethinker | 34 answers |
| Doubter | 37 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SKEPTIC (5)
But face him with any peril or problem and the drawer closed instantaneously leaving a mind that was utterly fearless, incredulous, and ingenious; swept clean of all cobwebs by as fine a skeptic broom as ever brushed a brain.
And it is ten times more so when to the schoolboy you add the skeptic, who is generally a sort of stunted schoolboy.
Not the wildest imagination of skeptic or mystic could have pictured the events under which the day was to close.
Religion, too, he says, is well enough; it does for the weak and the ignorant; though shrewd men, like our skeptic know that it is all a sham, and, of course, scarce give it a serious thought.
Drop down, O Fleecy Fog, and hide Her skeptic sneer and all her pride! Wrap her, O Fog, in gown and hood Of her Franciscan Brotherhood.
Quotes with SKEPTIC (3)
What, more realistically, is this “mutation,” the “new man”? He is the rootless man, discontinuous with a past that Nihilism has destroyed, the raw material of every demagogue’s dream; the “free-thinker” and skeptic, closed only to the truth but “open” to each new intellectual fashion because he himself has no intellectual foundation; the “seeker” after some “new revelation,” ready to believe anything new because true faith has been annihilated in him; the planner and experim…
Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness, and by no means a necessity of life.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 33 times in crossword archives (1946–2023).