Disbelief

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Refusal or reluctance to believe.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Unpreparedness, unwillingness, or inability to believe that something is the case.
  • n. astonishment
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of disbelieving;; a state of the mind in which one is fully persuaded that an opinion, assertion, or doctrine is not true; refusal of assent, credit, or credence; denial of belief.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Positive unbelief; the conviction that a proposition or statement for which credence is demanded is not true.
  • n. A negation or denial of the truth of some particular thing.
  • n. Synonyms Disbelief, Unbelief, incredulity, distrust, skepticism, infidelity. Disbelief is more commonly used to express an active mental opposition which does not imply a blameworthy disregard of evidence. Unbelief may be a simple failure to believe from lack of evidence or knowledge; but its theological use has given it also the force of wilful opposition to the truth.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. doubt about the truth of something
  • n. a rejection of belief
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    skepticism    doubt    incredulity    unbelief    distrust    discredit    infidelity    agnosticism    heresy   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Leif    aperitif    bas-relief    beef    belief    brief    chief    debrief    fief    grief   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    incredulity    dismay    frustration    exasperation    disapproval    puzzlement    disdain    awe    indignation    loathe