Not believing; indisposed to admit the truth of what is related; refusing or withholding belief.
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1. Not credulous; indisposed to admit or accept that which is related as true, skeptical; unbelieving.
2. Indicating, or caused by, disbelief or incredulity.
3. Incredible; not easy to be believed.
In an incredulous manner; with incredulity.
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Incredulity Roget’s Thesaurus §487
N. incredulousness, incredulity, # skepticism, pyrrhonism|, want of faith, suspiciousness, scrupulosity, suspicion, mistrust, cynicism, unbeliever, skeptic, cynic, misbeliever, 1, pyrrhonist, heretic
V. be incredulous, distrust, refuse to believe, shut one's eyes to, shut one's ears to, turn a deaf ear to, hold aloof, ignore, nullis jurare in verba magistri
Adj. incredulous, skeptical, unbelieving, inconvincible, hard of belief, shy of belief, disposed to doubt, indisposed to believe, suspicious, scrupulous, distrustful, cynical, 1the word miscreant, which originally meant simply misbeliever, has now quite another meaning (949), see trench, on the study of words, p, 71
Irreligion Roget’s Thesaurus §989
N. irreligion, indevotion, # godlessness, ungodliness, laxity, quietism, skepticism, doubt, unbelief, disbelief, incredulity, incredulousness, want of faith, want of belief, pyrrhonism, bout, agnosticism, atheism, deism, hylotheism, materialism, positivism, nihilism, infidelity, freethinking, antichristianity, rationalism, neology, atheist, skeptic, unbeliever, deist, infidel, pyrrhonist, giaour, heathen, alien, gentile, nazarene, espri fort, freethinker, latitudinarian, rationalist, materialist, positivist, nihilist, agnostic, somatist, theophobist
V. be irreligious, disbelieve, lack faith, doubt, question, dechristianize
Adj. irreligious, indevout, undevout, devoutless, godless, graceless, ungodly, unholy, unsanctified, unhallowed, atheistic, without god, skeptical, freethinking, unbelieving, unconverted, incredulous, faithless, lacking faith, deistical, unchristian, antichristian, worldly, mundane, earthly, carnal, worldly &c. minded
Adv. irreligiously, 4, acts of religion
No Bible verses found for "incredulous".