incredulous

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: in=cred=u=lous

CIDE DICTIONARY

incredulous, a. [L. incredulus. See In- not, and Credulous.].

•  Not credulous; indisposed to admit or accept that which is related as true, skeptical; unbelieving.  Bacon.  [1913 Webster]

  "A fantastical incredulous fool."  [1913 Webster]
•  Indicating, or caused by, disbelief or incredulity.  Longfellow.  [1913 Webster]
•  Incredible; not easy to be believed.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

incredulous, adj. (often foll. by of) unwilling to believe.

Derivative

incredulity n. incredulously adv. incredulousness n.

Etymology

L incredulus (as IN-(1), CREDULOUS)

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

incredulous

Irreligion

N irreligion, indevotion, godlessness, ungodliness, laxity, quietism, skepticism, doubt, unbelief, disbelief, incredulity, incredulousness, want of faith, want of belief, pyrrhonism, bout, agnosticism, atheism, deism, hylotheism, materialism, positivism, nihilism, infidelity, freethinking, antichristianity, rationalism, neology, atheist, skeptic, unbeliever, deist, infidel, pyrrhonist, giaour, heathen, alien, gentile, Nazarene, espri fort, freethinker, latitudinarian, rationalist, materialist, positivist, nihilist, agnostic, somatist, theophobist, irreligious, indevout, undevout, devoutless, godless, graceless, ungodly, unholy, unsanctified, unhallowed, atheistic, without God, skeptical, freethinking, unbelieving, unconverted, incredulous, faithless, lacking faith, deistical, unchristian, antichristian, worldly, mundane, earthly, carnal, worldly minded, irreligiously.

Incredulity

N incredulousness, incredulity, skepticism, pyrrhonism, want of faith, suspiciousness, scrupulosity, suspicion, mistrust, cynicism, unbeliever, skeptic, cynic, misbeliever, pyrrhonist, heretic, incredulous, skeptical, unbelieving, inconvincible, hard of belief, shy of belief, disposed to doubt, indisposed to believe, suspicious, scrupulous, distrustful, cynical.