Disbelieve
verb
To not believe, to doubt the truth or reality of something.
Despite the evidence, some people still disbelieve that man landed on the moon.
Often appears as...
- disbelieve in something
- disbelieve a story
verb
To not believe, to doubt the truth or reality of something.
Despite the evidence, some people still disbelieve that man landed on the moon.
Often appears as...
- disbelieve in something
- disbelieve a story
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Skepticism
Disbelieve often suggests a strong emotional resistance to accepting something as true.
Even after apologizing, I could see she disbelieved my sincerity.
Pro Tip 2/3Associated Negativity
'Disbelieve' may imply a negative attitude towards the speaker or the information presented.
The jury was instructed to disbelieve the witness due to his inconsistent testimony.
Pro Tip 3/3Contextual Use
Use 'disbelieve' when expressing doubt about commonly held facts or well-known stories.
You may disbelieve in ghosts, but I've seen one with my own eyes.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Skepticism
Disbelieve often suggests a strong emotional resistance to accepting something as true.
Even after apologizing, I could see she disbelieved my sincerity.
Pro Tip 2/3Associated Negativity
'Disbelieve' may imply a negative attitude towards the speaker or the information presented.
The jury was instructed to disbelieve the witness due to his inconsistent testimony.
Pro Tip 3/3Contextual Use
Use 'disbelieve' when expressing doubt about commonly held facts or well-known stories.
You may disbelieve in ghosts, but I've seen one with my own eyes.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Skepticism
Disbelieve often suggests a strong emotional resistance to accepting something as true.
Even after apologizing, I could see she disbelieved my sincerity.
Pro Tip 2/3Associated Negativity
'Disbelieve' may imply a negative attitude towards the speaker or the information presented.
The jury was instructed to disbelieve the witness due to his inconsistent testimony.
Pro Tip 3/3Contextual Use
Use 'disbelieve' when expressing doubt about commonly held facts or well-known stories.
You may disbelieve in ghosts, but I've seen one with my own eyes.
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Video examples
Jeff Hawkins: How brain...
I've got this experience, I'm in the world. I can't be just a bunch of cells." Well, people used to believe there was a life force to be living, and we now know that's really not true at all. And there's really no evidence, other than that people just disbelieve that cells can do what they do. So some people have fallen into the pit of metaphysical dualism,
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Voodoo Market Reveals...
world they told me the first time all our animals are roadkill they've died of natural causes and of course you don't really believe that but you don't want to disbelieve it you want to say okay
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Jeff Hawkins: How brain...
I've got this experience, I'm in the world. I can't be just a bunch of cells." Well, people used to believe there was a life force to be living, and we now know that's really not true at all. And there's really no evidence, other than that people just disbelieve that cells can do what they do. So some people have fallen into the pit of metaphysical dualism,
Video examples
Voodoo Market Reveals...
world they told me the first time all our animals are roadkill they've died of natural causes and of course you don't really believe that but you don't want to disbelieve it you want to say okay
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Quote examples
Kim Brooks
American Writer
All interesting, worthwhile humans suffered and struggled and overcame adversity of one sort or another. Pain is constructive. Misery can be useful. I believed this the way I believe the sun rises in the east. Then I had children, and I slowly began to disbelieve and disavow it.
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Neale Donald Walsch
American Author
One either has to believe in a God who's terribly prejudiced, or disbelieve the teachings of such exclusionary theologies. Religions have taught us that 'we are better than they.
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George Orwell
British Author
He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.
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Thomas Carlyle
Scottish Philosopher
No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.
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Hector Hugh Munro
British Novelist
No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.
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Gustave Flaubert
French Novelist
As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
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P. J. Harvey
British Musician
I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.
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Louis L'Amour
American Author
To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.
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Mason Cooley
American Writer
Old and young disbelieve one another's truths.
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Michael Novak
American Philosopher
To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia.
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Kim Brooks
American Writer
All interesting, worthwhile humans suffered and struggled and overcame adversity of one sort or another. Pain is constructive. Misery can be useful. I believed this the way I believe the sun rises in the east. Then I had children, and I slowly began to disbelieve and disavow it.
Quote examples
Neale Donald Walsch
American Author
One either has to believe in a God who's terribly prejudiced, or disbelieve the teachings of such exclusionary theologies. Religions have taught us that 'we are better than they.
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George Orwell
British Author
He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.
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Thomas Carlyle
Scottish Philosopher
No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.
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Hector Hugh Munro
British Novelist
No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.
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Gustave Flaubert
French Novelist
As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
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P. J. Harvey
British Musician
I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.
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Louis L'Amour
American Author
To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.
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Mason Cooley
American Writer
Old and young disbelieve one another's truths.
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Michael Novak
American Philosopher
To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia.
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