disbelieving in English

adjective

1

feeling or expressing disbelief.

the disbelieving look in her eyes

verb

1

be unable to believe (someone or something).

he seemed to disbelieve her

synonyms: incredulous, doubtful, dubious, unconvinced, distrustful, mistrustful, suspicious, cynical, skeptical, not believe, give no credence to, discredit, discount, doubt, distrust, mistrust, be incredulous, be unconvinced, reject, repudiate, question, challenge, take with a pinch of salt

adjective

• incredulous, doubtful, dubious, unconvinced, distrustful, mistrustful, suspicious, cynical, skeptical
• skeptical, unbelieving

verb

• not believe, give no credence to, discredit, discount, doubt, distrust, mistrust, be incredulous, be unconvinced, reject, repudiate, question, challenge, take with a pinch of salt
• discredit

Use "disbelieving" in a sentence

1. Disbelieving his unlikely story, she looked askance at Jack.

2. 9 The Jews’ disbelieving response to Jehovah’s prophecies has prevented them from heeding his warnings.

3. But many disbelieving locals have stayed behind, even as technicians in plastic suits and respirators swarm over the town.

4. Rather - for years - he had denied himself banality, as if disbelieving in the possibility of such physical transcendence.

5. In bed at last, believing and disbelieving, she turned her face delightedly into the pillows, smothering her certainty of kisses.

6. Disbelieving Chortles over forecasts of an abrupt change will die away as temperatures fall sharply from the pleasantly unseasonal

7. At the end of the book, Dumbledore attempts to convince a disbelieving Minister for Magic, Cornelius Fudge, that Voldemort has returned.

8. They made each other miserable, locking wills, disbelieving that the other party could long endure a war of emotional attrition.

9. Atheistic adjective nonbelieving, sceptic, disbelieving, faithless, heathen, infidel, godless, irreligious, unbelieving, freethinking, paganistic, nullifidian Atheistic philosophers Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition

10. Agnostic noun sceptic, cynic, scoffer, doubter, disbeliever, unbeliever, doubting Thomas, Pyrrhonist He was, if not an atheist, an Agnostic. adjective sceptical, questioning, doubting, cynical, doubtful, scoffing, unconvinced, disbelieving, incredulous, quizzical, mistrustful, unbelieving She grew up in an Agnostic …