( <美> skeptic)
1
- a person inclined to question or doubt all accepted opinions（对一切都）持怀疑态度的人。
1.1
- a person who doubts the truth of Christianity and other religions; an atheist无神论者。
2
- Philosophy an ancient or modern philosopher who denies the possibility of knowledge, or even rational belief, in some sphere【哲】怀疑论者, 不可知论者。
The leading ancient sceptic was Pyrrho, whose followers at the Academy vigorously opposed Stoicism. Modern sceptics have held diverse views: the most extreme have doubted whether any knowledge at all of the external world is possible （see SOLIPSISM）, while others have questioned the existence of objects beyond our experience of them.
派生词
skepticism
（〈美〉 skepticism）noun词源
late 16th cent. (in sense 2)： from French sceptique, or via Latin from Greek skeptikos, from skepsis 'inquiry, doubt'.