Incredulous

Definition: Incredulous

Incredulous

Adjective

1. Not disposed or willing to believe; unbelieving.

Date "incredulous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Etymology: Incredulous \In*cred"u*lous\, adjective. [Latin expression incredulus. See In- not, and Credulous.]. (Websters 1913)

Antonym: credulous (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
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.
	Adjective: incredulous, skeptical, unbelieving, inconvincible; hard of belief, shy of belief, disposed to doubt, indisposed to believe; suspicious, scrupulous, distrustful, cynical;
Irreligion	Skeptical, freethinking; unbelieving, unconverted; incredulous, faithless, lacking faith; deistical; unchristian, antichristian.
Unbelief Doubt	Incredulous as to, skeptical as to; distrustful as to, shy as to, suspicious of; doubting; Verb:
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Incredulous

English words defined with "incredulous": disbelievingly, distrustful ♦ incredulously ♦ unbelievingly. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Tautology : I don't want to sound incredulous but I can't believe it (reference) The Incredulous Reader: Literature and the Function of Disbelief (reference) (more book examples)
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Title	Author	Quote
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded	Carroll, Lewis	The Earl was listening with a slightly incredulous smile.
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"Incredulous" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Incredulous" is used about 189 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
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	189	22,353

Expression using "incredulous": incredulous as to. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "incredulous"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		mosbesues (distrustful, mistrustful, paranoid, sceptical, unbelieving), dyshues (distrustful, doubtful, doubting, dubious, leery, mistrustful, queer, shady, suspicious, wary). (various references)

Arabic		‏ميال للشك, ‏مفطور على الشك, ‏معبر عن الشك, ‏شكاك (misbeliever). (various references)

Bulgarian		скептичен (dim, sceptic, sceptical), който не вярва лесно, недоверчив (distrustful, mistrustful, trustless). (various references)

Chinese		不轻信. (various references)

Czech		nevìřícný, nevìřící (atheist, faithless, infidel, non believer, nonbeliever, unbelieving), nedùvìřivý (diffident, distrustful, mistrustful, sceptical, suspicious, wary). (various references)

Farsi		دیرباور (Unbeliever, Unbelievin). (various references)

Finnish		epäuskoinen (sceptical, unbelieving). (various references)

French		incrédule. (various references)

German		ungläubig (disbelieving, doubting, faithless, impious, impiously, in unbelief, incredulously, infidel, irreligious, unbelieving, unbelievingly), unglaubhaften. (various references)

Greek		δύσπιστοσ (mistrustful, skeptical, suspicious, unbelieving). (various references)

Hebrew		מפ�'ין ספק� ות, ספק� י (doubtful, sceptic, sceptical). (various references)

Hungarian		hitetlen (atheist, disbeliever, godless, impious, infidel, irreligious, misbeliever, miscreant, nescient, non believer, unbeliever, unbelieving, unchristian). (various references)

Indonesian		meragukan (confuse, doubt, equivocal, hesitate). (various references)

Italian		incredulo. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		疑い深い (distrustful, doubting, suspicious), 半信半疑 (dubious, half in doubt). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		うたがいぶかい (distrustful, doubting, suspicious), は�"し�"は�"ぎ (dubious, half in doubt). (various references)

Manx		meechredjallagh, anchredjuagh (infidel, unbelieving), anchredjallagh (incredible). (various references)

Norwegian		vantro (disbelief, infidel, infidelity), tvilende (dubious). (various references)

Pig Latin		incredulousay

Portuguese		incredulidade (disbelieve, unbelief), incrédulo (disboscation, impious, non believer, sceptic, sceptical, skeptic, unbeliever, unbelieving, unfaithful). (various references)

Romanian		incredul (infidel), neîncrezãtor (distrustful, distrustfully, mistrustful, suspicious, suspiciously). (various references)

Russian		недоверчивый (distrustful, mistrustful, shy, trustless). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		neveran (disloyal, faithless, infidel, trustless, unfaithful), nepoverljiv (distrustful, doubting, leery, mistrustful, no confidence, suspicious, trustless). (various references)

Spanish		incrédulo (disbeliever, unbeliever, unbelieving). (various references)

Swedish		skeptisk (sceptic, sceptical). (various references)

Turkish		inanmaz, zor inanan, kuşkucu (sceptic, sceptical, skeptic, skeptical, suspicious), güvensiz (distrustful, insecure, jealous, mistrustful, not confident, unsecured). (various references)

Ukranian		недовірливий (defiant, diffident, distrustful, mistrustful, nullifidian, shy, trustless, watchful). (various references)

Vietnamese		ho� i nghi; ngờ vực. (various references)
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Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	incredula, increduli, incredulis, incredulorum, incredulum, incredulus. (various references)
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Derivations
	Words beginning with "incredulous": incredulously. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Incredulous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: incerdulous, incrdulous, incredelous, incredilous, incredlous, incredolous, incredulis, incredulos, incredulouus, increduluos, increduluous, incredulus, increduous, incrudulous, inoredulous. (additional references)
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# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "incredulous" (pronounced i'nkre"julus)
5	-j u l u s	pendulous.
4	-u l u s	acropolis, anomalous, calculus, Carolus, fabulous, frivolous, garrulous, libelous, marvelous, megalopolis, merciless, meticulous, metropolis, miraculous, nautilus, nebulous, necropolis, Oxalis, perilous, populace, populous, querulous, ridiculous, scandalous, scrupulous, scurrilous, stimulus, syphilis, tantalus, tremulous, unscrupulous.
3	-l u s	accomplice, ageless, aimless, airless, Amaryllis, atlas, bacillus, backless, balas, baseless, blameless, bloodless, bolus, boneless, bottomless, boundless, brainless, breathless, callous, callus, careless, cashless, ceaseless, childless, classless, cloudless, clueless, Colas, colorless, cordless, countless, cutlass, defenseless, digitalis, directionless, doubtless, driverless, ductless, earless, effortless, endless, expressionless, eyeless, faceless, fatherless, fearless, featherless, featureless, feckless, fellas, fenceless, flawless, flightless, frictionless, fruitless, Gallus, gladiolus, godless, graceless, groundless, guileless, guiltless, hairless, hapless, harmless, headless, heartless, helpless, homeless, hopeless, hornless, humorless, irregardless, issueless, jealous, jobless, keyless, lactobacillus, landless, lawless, leaderless, leafless, legless, lifeless, limbless, limitless, listless, loveless, luckless, malice, meaningless, meatless, mindless, motherless, motionless, nameless, necklace, needless, odorless, overzealous, painless, palace, paperless, peerless, penniless, pilotless, pitiless, pointless, polis, powerless, priceless, prothallus, purposeless, reckless, regardless, relentless, remorseless, restless, riskless, rootless, rudderless, ruthless, scoreless, seamless, selfless, senseless, sexless, shameless, shapeless, shiftless, skinless, sleepless, sleeveless, smokeless, solace, soulless, speechless, spineless, spotless, stainless, stateless, stylus, surplus, tasteless, thankless, thoughtless, ticketless, tieless, timeless, tireless, toothless, topless, treeless, trellis, useless, valueless, victimless, voiceless, warrantless, weightless, windlass, windowless, wireless, witless, wordless, worthless, zealous, zipless.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-e-i-l-n-o-r-s-u-u"
	-2 letters: coinsured, credulous, decurions, inclosure, ludicrous, nucleoids, reclusion, scoundrel.
	-3 letters: cernuous, closured, cloudier, coenurus, coinsure, consider, crunodes, decurion, delusion, douceurs, dourines, inclosed, incloser, includes, inducers, insouled, licensor, nucleoid, nuclides, roundels, scleroid, sourdine, ulcerous, unclosed, unclouds, uncoiled, uncurled, uncursed, undocile, unsliced, unsoiled, unsolder, unsoured.
	-4 letters: cinders, cineols, clerids, cloners, closure, cloured, codeins, codlins, coenuri, coilers, coiners, colures, cornels, counsel, coursed, cronies, cruised, crunode, curdles, curious, dineros, discern, diurons, douceur, dourine, durions, elusion, enduros, inclose, include, incudes, incused, indoles, indorse, inducer, induces, insured, leucins, loudens, lousier, lucerns, nerolis, neuroid, nodules, nucleus, nuclide, orceins, ordines, recoils, recoins, rescind, resound, rondels, rosined, roundel, ruinous, rundles, scolder, scorned, scoured, secondi, sluiced, soilure, soldier, solider, sordine, sounder, sourced, unclose, uncloud, uncoils, uncured, uncurls, undoers, unoiled, unruled, unsolid, urinose, urinous.
	-5 letters: censor, ceorls, cerous, ciders, cinder, cineol, clerid, clines, cloned, cloner, clones, clonus, closed, closer, clouds, clours, codein, codens, coders, codlin, coiled, coiler, coined, coiner, colder, coleus, colies, colins, colure, conies, consul, corned, cornel, cornus, cosied, cosier, cosine, coulis, course, cousin, credos, cresol, crones, crouse, crudes, cruise, curdle, curies, curios, curled, cursed, curule, decors, dicers, dinero, diners, diuron, docile, donsie, dories, dorsel, douser, drones, dunces, durion, durocs, eloins, enduro, enolic, enrols, ensoul, escudo, icones, idlers, incurs, incuse, indole, indols, induce, indues, insole, insoul, insure, inured, inures, ironed, irones, lesion, leucin, liners, lodens, loners, lories, louden, louder, louies, loured, loused, lucern, lucres, lunier, lunies, neroli, nerols, nicols, nodule, noised, nordic, nosier, nuclei, nudies, nurled, nursed, oculus, oilers, oldies, oleins, onside, orcein, orcins, oriels, oscine, oscule, ounces, recoil, recoin, recons, redons, relics, reoils, resold, rinsed, roiled, rondel, rouens, rounds, roused, ruined, rundle, rusine, scored, scried, second, secund, senior, sidler, siloed, sliced, slicer, slider, sluice, snider, snored, soiled, solder, sonder, sorned, souled, source, soured, sunder, ulcers, uncles, uncoil, uncurl, undies, undoer, undoes, unsold, unsure, unused, uredos, urines, ursine.
	Words containing the letters "c-d-e-i-l-n-o-r-s-u-u"
	+1 letter: glucuronides.
	+2 letters: glucuronidase, incredulously, ludicrousness.
	+3 letters: glucuronidases, ridiculousness.
	+4 letters: ludicrousnesses.
	+5 letters: curmudgeonliness, ridiculousnesses.
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