Incredulous

Adjective

 * 1) Skeptical, disbelieving, or unable to believe.
 * 2) * 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Gods of Mars, Chapter 13
 * Xodar listened in incredulous astonishment to my narration of the events which had transpired within the arena at the rites of Issus.
 * 1) Expressing or indicative of incredulity.
 * 2) * 2009,
 * Reactions at Sun's campus, an hour's drive from San Francisco, ranged from the fearful to the incredulous.
 * 1)  Difficult to believe; incredible.
 * 2) * 1601, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, III.4:
 * Why euery thing adheres togither, that no dramme of a scruple, no scruple of a scruple, no obstacle, no incredulous or vnsafe circumstance [...].
 * 1) * 1984, Supreme Court of Illinois, opinion in People v Terrell, 459 N.E.2d 1337, quoted in David C. Brody, James R. Acker, and Wayne A. Logan, Criminal Law,  Jones &amp; Bartlett Publishers (2001), ISBN 0-8342-1083-5, page 564,
 * Faced with these facts, we find it incredulous that [the] defendant had any intent other than the armed robbery of the service station.

Derived terms

 * incredulously

Related terms

 * incredulity
 * credulous

Adverbs for Incredulous
blindly; youthfully; suspiciously; openly; distrustfully; skeptically; doubtfully; frankly; laughingly; amusedly; teasingly; blasphemously; scoffingly; gracelessly; impolitely; rudely; ignorantly; totally; impertinently; angrily; pathetically; comically; politely; petulantly.

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
From incredulus:.

Translations

 * Czech:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * German: ungläubig, skeptisch


 * Russian: скептичный, недоверчивый
 * Swedish: misstrogen, skeptisk


 * Czech:
 * Russian: невероятный


 * Swedish: otrolig