Unbelieving

4 definitions found

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

  Unbelieving \Un`be*liev"ing\, a.
     1. Not believing; incredulous; doubting; distrusting;
        skeptical.
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     2. Believing that the thing alleged is not true;
        disbelieving; especially, believing that the Bible is not
        a divine revelation, or that Christ was not a divine or a
        supernatural person. "Unbelieving Jews." --Acts xiv. 2.
        [1913 Webster] -- {Un`be*liev"ing*ly}, adv. --
        {Un`be*liev"ing*ness}, n.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Unbelieving \Unbelieving\
     See {believing}.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  unbelieving
       adj 1: rejecting any belief in gods [syn: {atheistic}, {atheistical}]
       2: holding that only material phenomena can be known and
          knowledge of spiritual matters or ultimate causes is
          impossible [syn: {nescient}]
       3: denying or questioning the tenets of especially a religion;
          "a skeptical approach to the nature of miracles" [syn: {disbelieving},
           {skeptical}, {sceptical}]

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

  42 Moby Thesaurus words for "unbelieving":
     atheist, atheistic, creedless, disbelieving, distrustful, doubting,
     faithless, gentile, goyish, heathen, heretical, incredulous,
     infidel, infidelic, irreligious, minimifidian, misbelieving,
     mistrustful, mistrusting, non-Christian, non-Jewish,
     non-Mohammedan, non-Mormon, non-Moslem, non-Muhammadan, non-Muslim,
     nonbelieving, nullifidian, pagan, questioning, quizzical,
     repudiative, sceptical, skeptical, suspicious, unchristian,
     uncircumcised, unconfident, unconverted, unconvinced, unpersuaded,
     without faith