- 1存疑的、懷疑的
If you are skeptical, you hold back. You do not accept a claim easily; you want more before you believe it. “I’m skeptical about the new app.” That is the everyday adjective next to the person-noun , and it is the form you will say most. American spelling uses k; British writing uses . Same sound: sk-. It is milder than naming someone a for life. Lots of people are skeptical about one story, one product, one promise, and leave it there. Teachers, scientists, and newspapers like it because it sounds careful, not rude. It is ordinary educated English, fine in speech and in essays. Though actually, the temperature of your voice does extra work. “I’m skeptical of the numbers” can mean you want to check. “I’m skeptical of him” can mean you already do not trust the person. Same word; what follows of or about tells you which.
From the word’s history
From Latin scepticus + -al; attested earlier than skeptic.
由拉丁文 scepticus 加上 -al 組成，比 skeptic 更早出現。
組成From Latin scepticus plus the ending -al. This adjective is attested in English earlier than the noun skeptic. By surface analysis it is skeptic + -al.
同家族的字
- skepticthe person-noun this adjective belongs with
- scepticalthe British spelling of the same adjective
- skepticismthe noun for the doubting attitude
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
skepticaladj/ˈskɛptɪkəl/
- 1
Having, or expressing doubt; questioning.
- My teacher was skeptical when I told her my dog ate my homework.
- Tom was skeptical when Paul told him that he saw Bigfoot.
- 2
Of or relating to philosophical skepticism or the skeptics.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。