He was incredulous of the story.
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Incredulous
//ˌɪnˈkɹɛ.d͡ʒə.ləs//
Synonyms for "incredulous" (47 found)
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8 entriesTranslations
42 translations across 20 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- невероятен adj (difficult to believe; incredible)
- недоверчив adj (Skeptical, disbelieving)
Catalan
1 entries- incrèdul adj (Skeptical, disbelieving)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 可疑的 adj (Skeptical, disbelieving)
Czech
2 entries- neuvěřitelný adj (difficult to believe; incredible)
- nevěřící adj (Skeptical, disbelieving)
Danish
1 entries- utrolig adj (difficult to believe; incredible)
Dutch
4 entries- ongelofelijk adj (difficult to believe; incredible)
- ongelooflijk adj (difficult to believe; incredible)
- ongeloofwaardig adj (difficult to believe; incredible)
- ongelovig adj (Skeptical, disbelieving)
Esperanto
1 entries- nekredema adj (Skeptical, disbelieving)
Finnish
4 entries- epäilevä adj (Skeptical, disbelieving)
- epäuskoinen adj (Skeptical, disbelieving)
- epäuskottava adj (difficult to believe; incredible)
- skeptinen adj (Skeptical, disbelieving)
French
1 entries- incrédule adj (Skeptical, disbelieving)
Galician
1 entries- incrédulo adj (Skeptical, disbelieving)
German
2 entries- skeptisch adj (Skeptical, disbelieving)
- ungläubig adj (Skeptical, disbelieving)
Greek
3 entries- απίστευτος adj (difficult to believe; incredible)
- δύσπιστος adj (Skeptical, disbelieving)
- σκεπτικός adj (Skeptical, disbelieving)
Manx
2 entries- anchredjallagh adj (difficult to believe; incredible)
- anchredjuagh adj (Skeptical, disbelieving)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- اینانمز adj (Skeptical, disbelieving)
Persian
1 entries- ناباور adj (Skeptical, disbelieving)
Portuguese
1 entries- incrédulo adj (Skeptical, disbelieving)
Russian
3 entries- невероя́тный adj (difficult to believe; incredible)
- недове́рчивый adj (Skeptical, disbelieving)
- скептичный adj (Skeptical, disbelieving)
Spanish
1 entries- incrédulo adj (Skeptical, disbelieving)
Swedish
3 entries- misstrogen adj (Skeptical, disbelieving)
- otrolig adj (difficult to believe; incredible)
- skeptisk adj (Skeptical, disbelieving)
Turkish
4 entries- inanması güç adj (difficult to believe; incredible)
- inanılması güç adj (difficult to believe; incredible)
- kuşkucu adj (Skeptical, disbelieving)
- septik adj (Skeptical, disbelieving)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
Tom was incredulous.
Source: tatoeba (3727779)
Tom remained silent, his mouth agape. He was completely incredulous in front of such trickery and bad faith.
Source: tatoeba (7724445)
The reader will doubtless take up this little work with an incredulous smile, supposing that he is about to peruse the impracticable schemes of some good citizen of Utopia. I would, therefore, in the first place, beg of him to lay aside all prejudice, and treat seriously and critically the question brought before him.
Source: tatoeba (7742259)
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