Word Meanings - INCREDULOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Not credulous; indisposed to admit or accept that which is related as true, skeptical; unbelieving. Bacon. A fantastical incredulous fool. Bp. Wilkins. 2. Indicating, or caused by, disbelief or incredulity. "An incredulous smile." Longfellow.

Additional info about word: INCREDULOUS

1. Not credulous; indisposed to admit or accept that which is related as true, skeptical; unbelieving. Bacon. A fantastical incredulous fool. Bp. Wilkins. 2. Indicating, or caused by, disbelief or incredulity. "An incredulous smile." Longfellow. 3. Incredible; not easy to be believed. Shak.

Related words: (words related to INCREDULOUS)

• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• ACCEPTABLE
  Capable, worthy, or sure of being accepted or received with pleasure; pleasing to a receiver; gratifying; agreeable; welcome; as, an acceptable present, one acceptable to us.
• INCREDULOUSLY
  In an incredulous manner; with incredulity.
• SMILE
  1. The act of smiling; a peculiar change or brightening of the face, which expresses pleasure, moderate joy, mirth, approbation, or kindness; -- opposed to frown. Sweet intercourse Of looks and smiles: for smiles from reason flow. Milton. 2. A
• ADMITTER
  One who admits.
• BACON
  The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. Bacon beetle , a beetle which, especially in the larval state, feeds upon bacon, woolens, furs, etc. See Dermestes. -- To save one's bacon, to save one's
• RELATIONSHIP
  The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
• BACONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy. Baconian method, the inductive method. See Induction.
• CAUSATIVE
  1. Effective, as a cause or agent; causing. Causative in nature of a number of effects. Bacon. 2. Expressing a cause or reason; causal; as, the ablative is a causative case.
• CREDULOUSLY
  With credulity.
• FANTASTICALITY
  Fantastically.
• CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
  Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.
• ACCEPTOR
  One who accepts; specifically ,
• CAUSATOR
  One who causes. Sir T. Browne.
• SMILER
  One who smiles. Tennyson.
• CAUSTICILY
  1. The quality of being caustic; corrosiveness; as, the causticity of potash. 2. Severity of language; sarcasm; as, the causticity of a reply or remark.
• ADMITTANCE
  The act of giving possession of a copyhold estate. Bouvier. Syn. -- Admission; access; entrance; initiation. -- Admittance, Admission. These words are, to some extent, in a state of transition and change. Admittance is now chiefly confined to its
• ACCEPTATION
  1. Acceptance; reception; favorable reception or regard; state of being acceptable. This is saying worthy of all acceptation. 1 Tim. i. 15. Some things . . . are notwithstanding of so great dignity and acceptation with God. Hooker. 2. The meaning
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• INDICATOR
  A pressure gauge; a water gauge, as for a steam boiler; an apparatus or instrument for showing the working of a machine or moving part; as: An instrument which draws a diagram showing the varying pressure in the cylinder of an engine or pump at
• PRELATIST
  One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott.
• ANTICAUSODIC
  See ANTICAUSOTIC
• COINDICATION
  One of several signs or sumptoms indicating the same fact; as, a coindication of disease.
• ACCEPT
  To receive as obligatory and promise to pay; as, to accept a bill of exchange. Bouvier. 6. In a deliberate body, to receive in acquittance of a duty imposed; bill , to agree to pay it when due. -- To accept service , to agree that a writ or
• PRELATISM
  Prelacy; episcopacy.
• PRELATIZE
  To bring under the influence of prelacy. Palfrey.
• MISRELATION
  Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall.
• TORSION INDICATOR
  An autographic torsion meter.