disbelieve

• POS: Verb (intransitive), Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: dis=be=lieve

OXFORD DICTIONARY

disbelieve, v.
1 tr. be unable or unwilling to believe (a person or statement).
2 intr. have no faith.

Derivative

disbelief n. disbeliever n. disbelievingly adv.

THESAURUS

disbelieve

be skeptical, deny, discredit, distrust, doubt, eschew, gag on, misbelieve, mistrust, negate, not accept, not admit, not believe, not buy, not fall for, not go for, not swallow, question, refuse to admit, refuse to believe, refuse to credit, reject, resist believing, scoff, scorn, scout, suspect, unbelieve

ROGET THESAURUS

disbelieve

Irreligion

VB be irreligious, disbelieve, lack faith, doubt, question, dechristianize.

Doubt

VB disbelieve, discredit, not believe, misbelieve, refuse to admit, refuse to believe, doubt, be doubtful, doubt the truth of, be skeptical as to, diffide, distrust, mistrust, suspect, smoke, scent, smell a rat, have doubts, harbor doubts, entertain doubts, suspicions, have one's doubts, demure, stick at, pause, hesitate, scruple, stop to consider, waver, hang in suspense, hang in doubt, throw doubt upon, raise a question, bring in, call in question, question, challenge, dispute, deny, cavil, cause a doubt, raise a doubt, start a doubt, suggest a doubt, awake a doubt, make suspicion, ergotize, startle, stagger, shake one's faith, shake one's belief, stagger one's faith, stagger one's belief.