Believe

Verb

 * 1)  To think something is true without having proof or empirical evidence.
 * 2)  To accept that someone is telling the truth.
 * 3)  To accept as true.
 * 4)  To have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth.

Adverbs for Believe
erroneously; candidly; passionately; frankly; ingenuously; assertively; infallibly; conscientiously; currently; popularly; deliberately; ardently; mournfully; instinctively; dispassionately; unshakably; unswervingly; staunchly; unwaveringly; persistently; unquestioningly; fatuously; illogically; religiously; dogmatically; pathetically; implicitly; tacitly; indisputably; immemorially; reasonably; fundamentally; irrationally; uncomprehendingly; obstinately; unfoundedly; fatalistically; superstitiously; uncompromisingly.

Thesaurus
accept, accept for gospel, accept implicitly, accredit, admit, allow, assume, be afraid, be certain, be pious, be religious, believe in, believe without reservation, buy, conceive, conclude, confide in, conjecture, consider, credit, daresay, deduce, deem, divine, dream, expect, fancy, fear God, feel, gather, give faith to, grant, have confidence in, have faith, have faith in, hold, hope in, imagine, infer, keep the faith, let, let be, love God, maintain, make believe, opine, place confidence in, place reliance in, prefigure, presume, presuppose, presurmise, pretend, provisionally accept, put faith in, put trust in, receive, reckon, rely on, rely upon, repose confidence in, repose in, repute, rest in, say, sense, set store by, suppose, surmise, suspect, swallow, swear by, take, take for, take for granted, take it, take on faith, take on trust, take stock in, take to be, think, trust, trust in, trust in God, trust to, understand

Etymology
From be-:/ge-: + a short form of gelyfan:, (leafa).

Alternative forms

 * beleeve

Pronunciation

 * (UK & US) ,

Usage notes

 * The transitive verb believe and the phrasal verb believe in are similar but can have very different implications.
 * To “believe” someone or something means to accept specific pieces of information as truth: believe the news, believe the lead witness. To “believe a complete stranger” means to accept a stranger's story with little evidence.
 * To “believe in” someone or something means to place faith in that person or concept: believe in liberty, believe in God. To “believe in one's fellow man” means to place faith in mankind.
 * Meanings sometimes overlap. To believe in a religious text would also require affirming at least the major principles. To believe a religious text might likewise imply placing one's faith in it, in addition to accepting its statements as facts.

Derived terms

 * believable
 * believability
 * believe it or not
 * believe in
 * believe you me
 * believer
 * can you believe
 * disbelieve
 * unbelievable
 * unbeliever

Related terms

 * belief
 * disbelief

Anagrams

 * beviele

Translations

 * Afrikaans: glo
 * Arabic: اعتقد
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Cebuano:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: kredi je,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:


 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: ,
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: ticēt
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovene: verjeti
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: tro
 * Turkish:
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian:


 * Afrikaans: glo
 * Arabic: اعتقد, امن ب
 * Bulgarian:, смятам,  мисля
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: ticēt
 * Old Provençal:
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovene: verjeti
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: tro
 * Turkish:
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian:


 * Afrikaans: glo,
 * Arabic:
 * Bulgarian: смятам, мисля
 * Dutch: geloven, denken (to think), ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:


 * Korean: ("to think")
 * Latin:
 * Polish: sądzić, wydawać się, przypuszczać
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Swedish: tro, förmoda, anta
 * Turkish:
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch: geloven in
 * Esperanto: ,
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Irish:
 * Portuguese: ,


 * Russian: ,
 * Slovene: verjeti, verovati
 * Spanish: creer, tener fe
 * Swedish: tro
 * Turkish:
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian:

Verb
believe