Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Definition: Disbelieve |
DisbelieveVerb1. Reject as false; refuse to accept. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "disbelieve" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Note: Disbelieve \Dis`be*lieve"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Disbelieved; present participle verb or noun Disbelieving.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonym: DisbelieveSynonym: discredit (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: believe (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Fear | Verb: fear, stand in awe of; be afraid; Adjective: have qualms; Noun: apprehend, sit upon thorns, eye askance; distrust; (disbelieve). |
Incredulity | Verb: be incredulous; Adjective: distrust; (disbelieve); refuse to believe; shut one's eyes to, shut one's ears to; turn a deaf ear to; hold aloof, ignore, nullis jurare in verba magistri. |
Irreligion | Verb: be irreligious; Adjective: disbelieve, lack faith; doubt, question. |
Unbelief Doubt | Verb: disbelieve, discredit; not believe; misbelieve; refuse to admit; (dissent); refuse to believe; (incredulity). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Disbelieve |
| English words defined with "disbelieve": Disbelieved ♦ unteach. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "disbelieve": Zindikites. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Two percent of everything people disregard, disbelieve and secretly hope is real. (The Invisible Man; writing credit: Craig Silverstein; Jonathan Glassner) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Author | Quotation |
Thomas Carlyle | No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve. |
William James | As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Through the Looking-Glass | Carroll, Lewis | Alice wondered a little at this, but she was too much in awe of the Queen to disbelieve it. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | But he could no longer disbelieve in the reality of love since God Himself had loved his individual soul with divine love from all eternity. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Disbelieve" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 76.67% of the time. "Disbelieve" is used about 60 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 76.67% | 46 | 50,285 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 21.67% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 60 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "disbelieve"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | dyshoj (call in question, dilly dally, distrust, doubt, misdoubt, question, smell a rat, suspect), nuk i zë besë (discredit, distrust), nuk i kam besim, nuk besoj (doubt, with a grain of salt), jam skeptik. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كفر (atheism, blaspheme, disbelief, infidelity, unbelief), نكر (contradict, controvert, deny, deny oneself, disallow, disclaim, gainsay, negate, negative, rebut, recant, renege, renounce, repudiate, retract, unreel), جحد (deny, odium, repudiate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | не вярвам (discredit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 怀疑 (Disbelieved, Disbelieving, Distrusted, Distrustful, Distrusting, Doubted, Doubting, sceptic, skeptic, skeptical, suspected, Suspecting, suspicion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | nevìřit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | اعتقادنکردن , دروغ پنداشتن , باورنکردن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | ei uskoa. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | ne pas croire. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | bezweifeln (doubt, query, question, suspect, to disbelieve, to doubt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | απιστώ, δυσπιστώ (distrust, mistrust). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לכפור (deny), לא ל"אמין (discredit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tagad (deny, disavow, gainsaid, nay, negate, to disavow, to disclaim, to disown, to gainsay, to negate, to negative, to renege, to traverse), nem hisz (to distrust, to distrust sy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | non prestare fede a, non credere, non affidare. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 믿지 않으십시". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | meechredjal (discredit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | mistro (distrust, suspect, suspicion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | isbelieveday descrer (misbelieve), incredulidade (incredulous, unbelief). (various references) nu crede (discredit). (various references) не верить. (various references) ne verovati. (various references) descreer (distrust), desconfiar de (distrust, mistrust), tener descreencia, no creer (entrust, intrust, misbelieve). (various references) inte tro på, betvivla (discredit, doubt, query, question). (various references) kuşkulanmak (be doubtful, doubt, fear, feel suspicious, impugn, query, question, smell a rat, surmise, suspect), inanmamak (distrust, misbelieve, not to believe), inançsız olmak, iman etmemek, güvenmemek (discredit, distrust, doubt, have a distrust of smb., mistrust, not to rely on, not to trust, suspect). (various references) не вірити, не довіряти (discredit, mistrust). (various references) anghredu, anghoelio. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "disbelieve": disbelieved, disbeliever, disbelievers, disbelieves. (additional references) | |
| |
"Disbelieve" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: disbelive, disbeliveer. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "disbelieve" (pronounced di'sbulē"v) |
| 5 | -b u l ē" v | believe. |
| 4 | -u l ē" v | relieve. |
| 3 | -l ē" v | cleave, Interleave, leave, sleeve. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-e-e-e-i-i-l-s-v" | |
-2 letters: bedevils, believed, believes. | |
-3 letters: bedevil, believe, beveled, devisee, edibles, sleeved, visible. | |
-4 letters: bedels, beeves, belied, belies, belive, beside, bevels, bevies, bields, bleeds, delves, devels, devils, devise, diesel, edible, ediles, elides, leveed, levees, levied, levies, sedile, seeled, seidel, sieved, sleeve, veiled, viseed. | |
-5 letters: bedel, belie, bevel, bides, bield, biles, bleed, deils, deles, delis, delve, devel. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-e-e-e-i-i-l-s-v" | |
+1 letter: disbelieved, disbeliever, disbelieves, misbelieved. | |
+2 letters: disbelievers. | |
+4 letters: disserviceable. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 69 73 62 65 6C 69 65 76 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
|
| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
|
| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
|
| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
|
Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .. ... -... . .-.. .. . ...- . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
|
Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101001 01110011 01100010 01100101 01101100 01101001 01100101 01110110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D i s b e l i e v e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0069 0073 0062 0065 006C 0069 0065 0076 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
|
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38758568717875718871 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Albanian | fjalor, qartësi, përcaktim, saktësi, transmetim, transferim | shqip, الألبانية, الألباني, албанец, албански език, албански, 阿"巴尼亚语, 阿爾巴尼亞人 , albánský, albanialainen, Albanais, albaner, αλβανικόσ, Αλβανός, αλβανόσ, albán, albanese, 알"니아, Albaneagh, albanês, arnãut, albanez, arnãuţesc, албанский, albanski, albanac, albanés, alban, Arnavut, албанський, албанка, албанець |
Arabic | معجم, قاموس, الوضوحية في الشيء, حد, تحديد, تعريف, التحديد, الإيضاحية, ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ترجمة, إفتتان | arabishte, العربية, عربي, اللغة العربية, арабски език, арабски, 阿拉伯 , arabský, arabština, arabialainen, arabe, arabisch, αραβικόσ, ערבית, ערבי, arab, arabo, 아라비아, Arabish, arabic, арабский, arapski, árabe, arabisk, arapça, arap, araplara özgü, арабська мова, арабський |
Bulgarian | речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, превод | bulgr, البلغارية, بلغاري, български, български език, българин, 保 利亚, bulharský, bulgarialainen, bulgare, 'ούλγαρος, bolgár, bulgaro, 불가리아, Bulgeyragh, Bulgeyrish, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, búlgaro, bulgar, bulgaristan ile ilgili, болгарський |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | kinez, الصينية, لغة الصين, صيني, الصيني أحد أبناء الصين, китайски, 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , èínský, èínština, èíòan, kiinalainen, Chinois, Chinesisch, Κινέζος, κινέζικα, κινέζικοσ, κινέζοσ, σινικόσ, kínai, cinese, 중국, Sheenish, Sheenagh, chinês, chinezesc, chinezeşte, chinezã, chinez, китайский, китаец, kineski jezik, kineski, chino, kinesisk, çinli, çince, çin ile ilgili, çin, китаянка, китайська мова, китайський, кита"ць |
Czech | slovník, definice, překlad | çek, تشيكي, اللغة التشيكوسلوفاكية, التشيكي أحد أبناء تشيكوسلوفاكيا, чешки, 捷克語 , 捷克语, 捷克 , èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, t?ekkiläinen, tchèque, Tscheche, tschechisch, Tschechin, Τσέχος, cseh, ceco, 체", Sheckagh, Sheckish, ceh, чешский, češki jezik, čeh, češki, checo, tjeck, Çek, çekoslovakyalı kimse, çekoslovakyalı, çek dili, чех, чеська мова, чеський, чешка |
Finnish | määritelmä, translaatio, taajuusmuutos | finlandez, finlandishte, finlandisht, اللغة الفنلندية, فنلندية, فنلندي, фински език, фински, 芬蘭語 , 芬兰语, finský, suomi, suomalainen, finnois, Finlandaise, finlandais, finnisch, φινλανδικόσ, פי י, finn, finlandese, 핀란", Fynlannish, Fynlannagh, finlandês, finês, finlandezã, финский, finski jezik, finski, finlandés, finés, finsk, fince, finlandiya'ya özgü, фінська мова, фінський |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | frëngjishte, frëng, franceze, اللغة الفرنسية, فرنسي, الشعب الفرنسي, френски език, френски, 法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, francouzský, francouzština, ranskalainen, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, צרפתית, צרפתי, francia, francese, "랑스, Ny Frangee, Mooinjey ny Frank, francês, francezii, franţuzesc, francezã, francez, franţuzeşte, французский, francuski jezik, francuski, francuzi, francés, fransk, franska, fransızca, fransız, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransa ile ilgili, французька мова, французький, Ffrengig |
German | wörterbuch, Übersetzung | gjerman, ضرب من الرقص, جرماني, الماني, اللغة الألمانية, المانية, германски, немски език, немски, немец, роден, готически, германец, 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , nìmec, nìmecký, saksalainen, allemand, deutsch, Deutsche, "ερμανός, 'רמ ית, 'רמ י, német, tedesco, 독일, Germaanish, Germaanagh, Garmane, Carmane, alemão, neamţ, немецкий, germanski, alemán, tysk, alman, німкеня, німецький, німець, Almaenwr |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | يوناني, اللغة اليونانية, الإغريقي, гръцки език, гръцки, грък, 希腊语, 希臘語 , řek, řecký, řeètina, kreikkalainen, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, יו ית, יו י, görög, greco, 그리스, Greagish, Greagagh, grego, greacã, греческий, грек, grčki, grk, grčki jezik, griego, grek, yunanistan'a ait, yunanca, yunan, Yunanli, yunanlı, Rumca, rum, грецький, гречанка, грецька мова, Groegwr |
Hebrew | אוצר מילים, "'"ר", "'בל", תור'מ ות, תר'ום, "עתק", "עתק | hebraishte, اليهودية, اللغة العبرية, يهودي, عبري, العبرية, иврит, староеврейски език, древен жител на юдея, юдейски, израилтянин, евреин, староеврейски, юдей, 西伯来, 希伯來語 , hebrejský, hebrejec, hebrejka, hebrejština, juutalainen, hébreu, hebräisch, Hebräer, εβραϊκόσ, εβραϊκά, εβραίοσ, עברי, עברית, zsidó, héber, izraelita, ebreo, ebraico, Ewagh, Ewnish, Ew, hebreu, hebraico, limba ebraicã, izraelit, evreu, evreiesc, ebraic, еврей, древнееврейский язык, древнееврейский, еврейский, hibru, hebreo, jude, hebreiska, hebreisk, musevi, ibranice, ibrani, іудей, іврит, старо"врейська мова, старо"врейський, "врейський, "врей, Hebreaidd, Hebraeg |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | مجري, المجري, الهنغاري, هنغاري, اللغة الهنغارية, унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, 匈牙利语, 匈牙利語 , maïarský, maïarština, maïar, unkarilainen, hongrois, Ungar, Ούγγρος, "ו 'רי, magyar, ungherese, 헝가리, Ungaarish, Ungaaragh, unguresc, limba ungarã, limba maghiarã, ungureşte, ungur, maghiar, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, húngaro, ungrare, macarca, macar, угорська мова, угорський, угорка, угорець |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | الإيطالي, اللغة الإيطالية, إيطالي, شخص إيطالي, италиански език, италиански, италианец, 意大利 , 意大利語 , 意大利语, italský, italština, ital, italialainen, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, איטלקית, איטלקי, olasz, italiano, 이탈리아, Iddaalish, italienesc, italieneşte, italian, italianã, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский, italijan, italijanski jezik, italijanski, italiensk, italienska, italienare, italyanca, italyan, італі"ць, італійська мова, італійський, італійка |
Korean | 사 , 의, 번역 | korean, اللغة الكورية, كوري جنوبي, كوري شمالي, كوري, корейски език, корейски, 韩国语, "國 , 朝鮮語 , korejec, korejština, korejský, coréen, koreanisch, Koreaner, κορεάτικοσ, κορεάτησ, koreai, 한국, coréia, a língua coreana, limba coreeanã, coreean, кореец, корейский, korejski, korejski jezik, koreanac, coreano, koreansk, kore'li, кореянка, коре"ць, корейська мова, корейський |
Manx | fockleyr, geyrid, meenaghey, keeayllaght, baght | gjuha e popullsisë së ishullit men, manština, manský, manx, mann-szigeti nyelv, Manninish, Manninagh, Gaelgagh, Yn Ghaelg, язык жителей о-ва мэн, с о-ва мэн, s ostrva mana, los habitantes de la isla de man, lengua de la isla de man, de la isla de man, från ön man, man adası, man dili, менський, менський діалект |
Norwegian | norvegjez, نرويجى, النرويجية, النرويجى, اللغة النروجية, норвежка, норвежки език, норвежки, норвежец, 挪威语, norský, norjalainen, norvégien, Norweger, Νορβηγός, νορβηγόσ, νορβηγικόσ, norvég, norvegese, 노르웨이, Norlannish, Norlannagh, Loghlynagh, Loghlynish, norsk, norueguês, norvegianã, norvegian, норвежский, norvežanin, norveški jezik, norveški, noruego, norrman, norveçli, Norveçce, Norveçlí, norveççe, norveç, норвежці, норвезька мова, норвезький, норвежець, Norwyeg | |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | portugez, portugalisht, اللغة البرتغالية, البرتغالية, البرتغالي, португалски, португалски език, португалец, 葡萄牙語 , 葡萄牙人 , 葡萄牙语, portugalský, portugalilainen, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, portoghese, 포르투갈, Portiugish, Portiugagh, português, portughez, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalac, portugalski, portugués, portugis, portekizce, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli, португальський, португальська мова, португалець |
Romanian | dicţionar, definiţie, determinare, definire, translaţie, traducere, tãlmãcire | rumun, румънски език, румънски, румънец, 罗马尼亚语, rumunský, rumunština, romanialainen, Roumain, rumäne, ρουμανόσ, Ρουμάνος, román, rumeno, 루마니아, Roomainagh, romeno, român, румынский, румын, rumunski jezik, rumunski, rumano, rumänsk, румунський, румунка, румунська мова, румун |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | روسي, اللغة الروسية, الروسية, руски език, руски, руснак, 俄語 , 俄文 , 俄语, ruština, ruský, venäläinen, Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, רוסי, orosz, russo, 러시아, Rooshish, Rooshagh, russisk, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, ryss, Rusça, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський |
Serbo-Croatian | leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenje | 塞"维亚-克罗地亚语, 塞爾維亞克羅地亞語 , serbokroatisch, 세르보크로아티아, servo-croata, sârbo-croat, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski, serbokroatiska, serbokroatisk |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | spanjoll, اللغة الأسبانية, الأسبانية, أسباني, испански език, испански, 西班牙語 , 西班牙文 , 西班牙语, španìlský, španìlština, espanjalainen, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, ספר"ית, ספר"י, spanyol, spagnolo, 스페인, Spaainish, Spaainagh, espanhol, spaniol, spaniolesc, spanioleşte, испанский, španski, španski jezik, español, spanska språk, spansk, ispanyollar, ispanyol, ispanyolca, іспанський, іспанська мова |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, definition, översättning | suedez, اللغة السويدية, шведски, шведски език, швед, 瑞典語 , 瑞典语, švédský, švédština, ruotsalainen, suédois, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svéd, svedese, 스웨덴, Soolynish, Soolynagh, шведский, švedski jezik, švedski, sueco, svensk, isveççe, isveç dili, isveç, Ísveçlí, шведська мова, шведський |
Turkish | sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme | turk, تركي أحد أبناء تركيا, اللغة التركية, турски език, турски, 土耳其語 , 土耳其, turecký, tureètina, turkkilainen, turque, türkisch, τούρκικοσ, טורקי, török, Yn Turkish, Turkagh, turcesc, turc, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, turco, turkisk, türkçe, türk, турецький, турецька мова |
Ukranian | словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення | 乌克兰 |
Welsh | geirlyfr, geiriadur, diffiniad, darnodiad, trosiad | shkel premtimin, populli i uellsit, ik pa paguar, i uellsit, gjuha e uellsit, تهرب من دفع الرهان, الولزية لغة إقليم ويلز, ويلزي, уелски, уелски език, не си плащам дълга, измъквам се от задължение, 威"士, 威爾士語 , waleský, waleština, gallois, walisisch, ουάλλοσ, ουαλλικόσ, δεν πληρώνω τα οφειλόμενα, walesi, gallese, Bretnagh, galês, limba velşã, velş, din ţara galilor, уэльский, velšanin, podvaliti, velški jezik, velški, galés, walesisk, galler ile ilgili, gal dili, bahisleri ödemeden kaçmak, ödemeden kaçmak, sözünü tutmamak, şartları yerine getirmemek, у"льський, не віддати гроші, валлійська мова, валлійський, валлійці, Cymreig |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | anglezët, anglez, gjuhë zngleze, anglishte, anglisht, الإنجليزية, الأنكليزي, إنكليزي, ترجمة إنكليزية, اللغة الإنكليزية, английски език, английски, англичаните, 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , anglicky, englantia, englantilainen, anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, א 'לית, angol, inglese, 영국, Sostynagh, Sostnagh, Baarlagh, inglês, englezesc, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, inglés, engelsk, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce, англійський, англійці, англійська мова, Saesneg |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Quotations: Fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
