Unbelieving
adj ·4 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 That does not believe; incredulous, skeptical.
"One Sunday morning I woke up, saying to my sister N., " Do you know, I have had such a vivid dream about the Roper party that I can hardly believe T am awake now." "What did you dream?" said N., in rather an unbelieving and sleepy tone of voice."
- 1 denying or questioning the tenets of especially a religion wordnet
- 2 holding that only material phenomena can be known and knowledge of spiritual matters or ultimate causes is impossible wordnet
- 3 rejecting any belief in gods wordnet
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More examples"Therefore, putting on one side imaginary things concerning a prince, and discussing those which are real, I say that all men when they are spoken of, and chiefly princes for being more highly placed, are remarkable for some of those qualities which bring them either blame or praise; and thus it is that one is reputed liberal, another miserly, using a Tuscan term (because an avaricious person in our language is still he who desires to possess by robbery, whilst we call one miserly who deprives himself too much of the use of his own); one is reputed generous, one rapacious; one cruel, one compassionate; one faithless, another faithful; one effeminate and cowardly, another bold and brave; one affable, another haughty; one lascivious, another chaste; one sincere, another cunning; one hard, another easy; one grave, another frivolous; one religious, another unbelieving, and the like."
Etymology
From un- + believing.
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