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Definition: Disbelieving |
DisbelievingAdjective1. Denying or questioning the tenets of especially a religion; "a skeptical approach to the nature of miracles". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "disbelieving" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1657. (references) |
Synonyms: DisbelievingSynonyms: sceptical (adj), skeptical (adj), unbelieving (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Disbelieving |
| Etymologies containing "disbelieving": Disbelieve. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | Disbelieving what they're seeing (Wonder; performing artist: Natalie Merchant) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "Disbelieving" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 68.97% of the time. "Disbelieving" is used about 58 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 (-ing form) | 68.97% | 40 | 54,274 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 27.59% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.72% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.72% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 58 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "disbelieving"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 怀疑 (Disbelieve, Disbelieved, Distrusted, Distrustful, Distrusting, Doubted, Doubting, sceptic, skeptic, skeptical, suspected, Suspecting, suspicion). (various references) | ||||
German | bezweifelnd. (various references) | ||||
Hungarian | talmi (phoney, tinsel), hiteltelen. (various references) | ||||
Korean | 믿지 않음 (Disbelief). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | isbelievingday | ||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | incredula, increduli, incredulis, incredulorum, incredulum, incredulus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "disbelieving" (pronounced di'sbulē"ving) |
| 7 | -b u l ē" v i ng | believing, unbelieving. |
| 6 | -u l ē" v i ng | relieving. |
| 5 | -l ē" v i ng | interleaving, leaving. |
| 4 | -ē" v i ng | achieving, conceiving, deceiving, grieving, heaving, interweaving, perceiving, receiving, retrieving, thieving, weaving. |
| 3 | -v i ng | absolving, approving, arriving, behaving, braving, calving, caregiving, carving, caving, conniving, conserving, craving, curving, delving, depriving, deriving, deserving, disapproving, dissolving, diving, driving, earthmoving, engraving, evolving, forgiving, giving, halving, having, improving, involving, jiving, lifesaving, living, loving, misbehaving, misgiving, moving, observing, paving, preserving, proving, raving, reliving, removing, reserving, resolving, reviving, revolving, revving, saving, serving, shaving, shelving, shoving, sieving, skydiving, solving, starving, staving, striving, surviving, thanksgiving, thriving, undeserving, unforgiving, unnerving, unswerving, waiving, waving. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-e-e-g-i-i-i-l-n-s-v" | |
-2 letters: bedeviling. | |
-3 letters: believing, bleedings, dieseling, divisible, inveigled, inveigles, invisible, vendibles. | |
-4 letters: bedevils, beveling, bielding, bleeding, develing, deviling, devising, divinise, inedible, inveigle, seedling, sideline, sideling, sleeving, sniveled, veilings, vendible. | |
-5 letters: bedevil, bindles, blendes, deleing, delving, deveins, dingies, dingles, divines, edibles, eliding, endives, engilds, enisled, ensiled, legends, lindies, linseed, livened, livings, seeding, seeling, sibling, sidling, sieving. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 69 73 62 65 6C 69 65 76 69 6E 67 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .. ... -... . .-.. .. . ...- .. -. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101001 01110011 01100010 01100101 01101100 01101001 01100101 01110110 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D i s b e l i e v i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0069 0073 0062 0065 006C 0069 0065 0076 0069 006E 0067 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)387585687178757188758073 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , Chinesisch, kínai, 중국 |
German | wörterbuch, Übersetzung | 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , deutsch, Deutsche, német, 독일 |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | 匈牙利语, 匈牙利語 , Ungar, magyar, 헝가리 |
Korean | 사 , 의, 번역 | 韩国语, "國 , 朝鮮語 , koreanisch, Koreaner, koreai, 한국 |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , englisch, angol, 영국 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Translations: Ancient 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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