Synonyms of doubters

doubters

noun

plural of doubter

as in skeptics

a person who is always ready to doubt or question the truth or existence of something

there will always be some hard-core doubters of the government's denial of the UFO incident

Synonyms & Similar Words

• skeptics
• questioners
• unbelievers
• disbelievers
• doubting Thomases
• cynics
• agnostics
• pessimists
• scoffers
• misanthropes
• ridiculers
• deriders

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• pigeons
• gulls
• suckers
• dupes
• chumps

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of doubters

That unexpected fandom has grown over the past two years, with unlikely converts taking to the internet’s alleyways to spread the good word—and, in the process, annoying the doubters. — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 21 Oct. 2026

All the while, the Buckeyes just sat quietly in the background with the best player in the sport, waiting for their turn to prove the doubters wrong after a loss at Texas earlier in the season thanks to a fourth quarter collapse. — Trey Wallace Outkick, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2026

Zhang Xiaofei, the star of Chinese blockbuster Hi, Mom, plays the captain of the Emei Women’s Football Team, which enters the Supreme Invincible Cup determined to prove its doubters wrong. — Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2026

When Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce and superstar singer Taylor Swift began dating, the haters/doubters were out in full force. — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 25 Sep. 2026

These doubters also disparage as unreliable or wishful thinking the oral histories passed down by Hemings’s descendants who have placed Jefferson in their family tree. — Andrew Lawler, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2026

In the past three weeks he’s silenced each and every one of his doubters. — Chris Marshall-Bell, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026

Jackson wants to convince his doubters that the messenger doesn’t matter as much as the message. — Jesús Rodríguez, New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2026

To doubters who said these two wouldn’t last, Wade, 44, and Union, 53, have proven them wrong. — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2026