disbelieve
- to have no belief in; refuse or reject belief in: to disbelieve reports of UFO sightings.
- to refuse or reject belief; have no belief.
Origin of disbelieve
Related Words for disbelieve
repudiate, eschew, question, mistrust, discount, discredit, scout, suspect, distrust, reject, scornExamples from the Web for disbelieve
Contemporary Examples of disbelieve
I was supposed to disbelieve everything the Israelis just told me.
I have looked down on dead Marines this way, trying to disbelieve them back to life.
You may disbelieve the promise, but I'm afraid you can't simply instruct the voters to agree with you.
There's another reason to disbelieve in a conspiracy: the number comes too late to do any good.
Some" may disbelieve these things, but even among conservatives, it is unlikely to be a very big "some.
Historical Examples of disbelieve
But accident enabled us to hear from your own lips, details which we could not disbelieve.
It Happened in EgyptC. N. Williamson
Even good Bishop Jewel did not disbelieve in the power of the evil eye.
English VillagesP. H. Ditchfield
I did not imagine, I only heard and believed—and now I have seen, and I disbelieve.
Tales And Novels, Volume 9 (of 10)Maria Edgeworth
I cannot yet detect any signs of such an alliance, and disbelieve the story.
Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863Adam Gurowski
The former has sworn that she mentioned it to no one, and there is no reason to disbelieve her.
The Macdermots of BallycloranAnthony Trollope
disbelieve
- (tr) to reject as false or lying; refuse to accept as true or truthful
- (intr usually foll by in) to have no faith (in)disbelieve in God