Skeptical

Adjective

 * 1) Having, or expressing doubt; questioning.
 * My teacher was skeptical when I told her my dog ate my homework.
 * I can see why people are so skeptical [sic] about him, but I think he's on to something here. (regarded by organizations such as the BBC as an error)
 * Of, or related to skepticism or the skeptics.

Adverbs for Skeptical
openly; publicly; scoffingly; jeeringly; derisively; contemptuously; significantly; conspicuously; persistently; obstinately; stubbornly; stolidly; distrustfully; arrogantly; oddly; curiously; extremely; profoundly; secretly.

Thesaurus
Humean, Pyrrhonic, agnostic, ambiguous, capricious, cautious, chancy, changeable, cynical, dicey, disbelieving, disinclined to believe, disposed to doubt, dissenting, distrustful, doubtful, doubting, dubious, equivocal, erratic, fickle, freethinking, from Missouri, guarded, hard of belief, hesitant, hesitating, impervious to persuasion, in doubt, incalculable, inconvincible, incredulous, indecisive, indemonstrable, irresolute, leery, mistrustful, mistrusting, polysemous, questioning, scrupulous, shy, shy of belief, skeptic, suspecting, suspicious, touch-and-go, unaccountable, unbelieving, uncertain, unconfirmable, unconvinced, unconvincible, uncredulous, undivinable, unforeseeable, unpersuadable, unpersuaded, unpersuasible, unpredictable, unprovable, unsure, untrusting, unverifiable, unwilling to accept, variable, wary, wavering, whimsical

Alternative forms

 * sceptical (Commonwealth & Ireland)

Translations

 * Catalan: escèptic
 * Danish:
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 * French: ,


 * German:
 * Hungarian: kételkedő, kétkedő, szkeptikus
 * Portuguese: cético,  céptico
 * Swedish: skeptisk


 * Catalan: escèptic
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Portuguese: cético,  céptico
 * Spanish: escéptico
 * Swedish: skeptisk