doubter
nounEtymology From doubt + -er.
1
One who doubts.
- I have a great deal of sympathy with scientific doubters, and with those who test psychicism up hill and down dale and are not satisfied.1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 275:
- “Then it's true,” he said quietly. “Everything.” “Ay, thou doubter! Ay thou disbelieving dreg!”1970, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 190:
- Related terms
- no-doubter