sceptical

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   denying or questioning the tenets of especially a religion

   I always took a skeptical approach to the nature of miracles.

2. 2
   adj

   marked by or given to doubt

   When reading a scientific study, one should always have a skeptical attitude.

3. 3
   adj

   Commonwealth standard spelling of skeptical.

   But regardless of what they made of phrenology, those who saw craniometry as a means of measuring the relative weight of intelligence and emotion in psychological makeup were generally sceptical as to whether, as Blumenbach and Camper believed, humanity had branched from one ancestral pair into varietal types as a result of colonising different continents.

Etymology

By surface analysis, sceptic + -al.