English Dictionary

skeptic

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈskɛp.tɪk/

名詞

アメリカ英語 前置詞句

Someone who doubts beliefs, claims, plans, etc that are accepted by others as true or appropriate, especially one who habitually does so. / (in particular) Someone who is skeptical towards religion.

日本語の意味

他人に真実または適切だと受け入れられている信念や主張、計画などに疑いを持つ人。 / 特に宗教に対して懐疑的な人。

The skeptic raised several thoughtful objections before agreeing to the plan.

その懐疑者は計画に同意する前に、いくつかの思慮深い異議を唱えた。

意味（1）

Someone who doubts beliefs, claims, plans, etc that are accepted by others as true or appropriate, especially one who habitually does so.

But for the fly he might have made me think He had been at his poetry , comparing Nailhead with fly and fly with huckleberry : How like a fly , how very like a fly . But the real fly he missed would never do ; The missed fly made me dangerously skeptic.[…]

意味（2）

(in particular) Someone who is skeptical towards religion.

skeptics （ plural ）