Pyrrhonist
41sceptic — I. n. [Written also Skeptic.] 1. Doubter, questioner, Pyrrhonist. 2. Deist, infidel, unbeliever, freethinker. II. a. See sceptical …
42agnostic — n 1. skeptic, nullifidian, unbeliever, doubter, disbeliever, questioner, cynic, doubting Thomas, Pyrrhonist; empiricist, materialist, phenomenalism freethinker, atheist; heretic, scismatic, backslider; infidel, pagan, heathen. adj 2. skeptical,… …
43atheist — n 1. nonbeliever, disbeliever, unbeliever, denier; irreligionist, infidel, heretic, iconoclast. 2. skeptic, doubter, Pyrrhonist, nihilist, nullifidian; agnostic, freethinker, rationalist, materialist, positivist; heathen, pagan, idolater, idolist …
44heathen — n 1. unbeliever, infidel, pagan, Islam. kaffir, gentile; atheist, freethinker, disbeliever, nullifidian; agnostic, skeptic, Pyrrhonist, doubter, Doubting Thomas; iconoclast, secularist; apostate, heretic, backslider, antichrist. 2. primitive,… …
45heretic — n 1. dissenter, nonconformist, seceder; renounces abjurer, repudiator, rejecter; deserter, renegade, apostate, recreant, defector, traitor; bolter, turncoat, retractor, recanter; tergiversator, straddler. 2. nonbeliever, disbeliever, unbeliever,… …
46pagan — n 1. heathen, unbeliever, nonbeliever, infidel, Archaic. paynim, Islam. kafir, Turkish. giaour, gentile; idolater, idolizer, idolatrizer, sun worshiper, heliolater, star worshiper, fetishist, zoolater, animal worshiper, fire worshiper, devil… …
47skeptic — n questioner, doubter, man or woman from Missouri, doubting Thomas; disbeliever, nonconformist, dissenter, freethinker, agnostic, unbeliever, nulli fidian; scoffer, cynic, Pyrrhonist, minimifidian; defeatist, pessimist …
48unbeliever — n skeptic, Pyrrhonist; doubter, doubting Thomas, agnostic, nullifidian, minimifidian, disbeliever; nonbeliever, nihilist, atheist, infidel, heretic; heathen, pagan, gentile …
49Pyrrhonism — [pir′ə niz΄əm] n. 1. the doctrine taught by Pyrrho (c. 360 c. 270 B.C. ), a Gr. Skeptic, that all knowledge, including the testimony of the senses, is uncertain 2. extreme skepticism Pyrrhonist n …
50pyrrhonism — n. 1 the philosophy of Pyrrho of Elis (c.300 BC), maintaining that certainty of knowledge is unattainable. 2 scepticism; philosophic doubt. Derivatives: Pyrrhonist n. Etymology: Gk Purrhon Pyrrho …
