skeptical

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.

From Latin scepticus + -al; attested earlier than skeptic. By surface analysis, skeptic + -al.

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