skeptic

Meaning

Noun

• Someone who doubts beliefs, claims, plans, etc that are accepted by others as true or appropriate, especially one who habitually does so.
• Someone who is skeptical towards religion.

Origin

• Borrowed from French sceptique (but with a pronunciation closer to that of the Greek etymon), or possibly directly from Late Latin scepticus (originally attested only in the plural Scepticī), from Ancient Greek σκεπτικός, from σκέπτομαι, compare to σκοπέω.