About The Word Incredulous
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Incredulous
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What's The Definition Of Incredulous?
[adj] not disposed or willing to believe; unbelieving
Synonyms | Synonyms for Incredulous: disbelieving | distrustful | sceptical | skeptical | unbelieving Related Terms | Find terms related to Incredulous: 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 See Also | incredible | unbelievable Incredulous In Webster's Dictionary \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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