Incredulous

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Incredulous \In*cred"u*lous\ (?; 135), a. [L. incredulus. See
     {In-} not, and {Credulous}.]
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     1. Not credulous; indisposed to admit or accept that which is
        related as true, skeptical; unbelieving. --Bacon.
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              A fantastical incredulous fool.       --Bp. Wilkins.
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     2. Indicating, or caused by, disbelief or incredulity. "An
        incredulous smile." --Longfellow.
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     3. Incredible; not easy to be believed. [R.] --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  incredulous
       adj : not disposed or willing to believe; unbelieving [ant: {credulous}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  47 Moby Thesaurus words for "incredulous":
     Humean, Pyrrhonic, agnostic, cautious, creedless, disbelieving,
     disinclined to believe, disposed to doubt, distrustful, doubtful,
     doubting, dubious, faithless, guarded, hard of belief, heretical,
     hesitant, impervious to persuasion, inconvincible, irreligious,
     leery, minimifidian, mistrustful, nonbelieving, nullifidian,
     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