sceptical

Questions about sceptical

What does sceptical mean?

sceptical means "marked by or given to doubt". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sceptical?

sceptical has 3 syllables: scep-ti-cal. The stress falls on "scep".

What is another word for sceptical?

Close synonyms include doubting, questioning, skeptical, disbelieving, skeptical. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sceptical a common word?

sceptical is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.