- unbelieving
- adjective Date: 14th century marked by unbelief ; incredulous, skeptical • unbelievingly adverb
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Unbelieving — Un be*liev ing, a. 1. Not believing; incredulous; doubting; distrusting; skeptical. [1913 Webster] 2. Believing the thing alleged no to be true; disbelieving; especially, believing that Bible is not a divine revelation, or that Christ was not a… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
unbelieving — index cynical, inconvincible, incredulous, leery, skeptical Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
unbelieving — [adj] skeptical agnostic, cynical, disbelieving, distrustful, doubtful, doubting, dubious, freethinking, leery, mistrustful, nonbelieving, not born yesterday*, questioning, show me*, suspicious, unconvinced; concept 403 … New thesaurus
unbelieving — [un΄bə lē′viŋ] adj. not believing; doubting; skeptical; incredulous unbelievingly adv … English World dictionary
unbelieving — [[t]ʌ̱nbɪli͟ːvɪŋ[/t]] ADJ If you describe someone as unbelieving, you mean that they do not believe something that they have been told. He looked at me with unbelieving eyes. Syn: sceptical … English dictionary
unbelieving — unbelievingly, adv. unbelievingness, n. /un bi lee ving/, adj. 1. not believing; skeptical. 2. not accepting any, or some particular, religious belief. [1350 1400; ME; see UN 1, BELIEVING] Syn. 1. doubting, questioning, incredulous. * * * … Universalium
unbelieving — adjective That does not believe; incredulous, skeptical … Wiktionary
unbelieving — Synonyms and related words: atheist, atheistic, creedless, disbelieving, distrustful, doubting, faithless, gentile, goyish, heathen, heretical, incredulous, infidel, infidelic, irreligious, minimifidian, misbelieving, mistrustful, mistrusting,… … Moby Thesaurus
unbelieving — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. doubting, skeptical, incredulous; see suspicious 1 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. skeptical, doubting, disbelieving, scoffing, questioning, suspicious, cynical, dubious, incredulous, agnostic, atheist. ANT.:… … English dictionary for students
unbelieving — adj. skeptical, incredulous; not adhering to a religious faith … English contemporary dictionary
