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
1Other words from disbelieve
- dis·be·liev·er, noun
- dis·be·liev·ing·ly, adverb
Words that may be confused with disbelieve
- disbelieve , misbelieve
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How to use disbelieve in a sentence
Just about everyone else felt equally ebullient, even those who had previously weighed in as disbelievers.
They riddled all divines, and not unfrequently made them skeptics, disbelievers as bad as themselves.
Abraham Lincoln: Was He A Christian? | John B. RemsburgNow in this disregard of disbelievers, the narrowness of vision and hurtful overzeal, I discern something immoral.
Discourses of Keidansky | Bernard G. RichardsWe may go further and say that in none of these three plays is there any hint that there were disbelievers.
A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 | Wallace NotesteinIn any case, while he defended the law, he put himself among the disbelievers in witchcraft.
A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 | Wallace Notestein
The disbelievers in miracles deny them (rightly or wrongly) because they have a doctrine against them.
Orthodoxy | G. K. Chesterton
British Dictionary definitions for disbelieve
/ (ˌdɪsbɪˈliːv) /
(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
Derived forms of disbelieve
- disbeliever, noun
- disbelieving, adjective
- disbelievingly, adverb
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