Meaning of INCREDULOUS
| Pronunciation: | | in'krejulus
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| | Definition: | | [adj] not disposed or willing to believe; unbelieving |
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| | Synonyms: | | disbelieving, distrustful, sceptical, skeptical, unbelieving |
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| | Antonyms: | | credulous | | |
| | See Also: | | incredible, unbelievable | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \In*cred"u*lous\ (?; 135), a. [L. incredulus. See
{In-} not, and {Credulous}.]
1. Not credulous; indisposed to admit or accept that which is
related as true, skeptical; unbelieving. --Bacon.
A fantastical incredulous fool. --Bp. Wilkins.
2. Indicating, or caused by, disbelief or incredulity. ``An
incredulous smile.'' --Longfellow.
3. Incredible; not easy to be believed. [R.] --Shak.
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| | Related Terms: | | agnostic, cautious, creedless, disbelieving, disinclined to believe, disposed to doubt, distrustful, doubtful, doubting, dubious, faithless, guarded, hard of belief, heretical, hesitant, Humean, impervious to persuasion, inconvincible, irreligious, leery, minimifidian, mistrustful, nonbelieving, nullifidian, Pyrrhonic, questioning, quizzical, repudiative, sceptical, shy of belief, skeptic, skeptical, suspecting, suspicious, unbelieving, uncertain, unconfident, unconverted, unconvinced, unconvincible, uncredulous, unpersuadable, unpersuasible, unsatisfied, unwilling to accept, wary, without faith |
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