Brucker Bears 4-5: incredulous

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

incredulous

(adj.) - If you are unable or unwilling to believe something, you are probably incredulous about it.
*incredible means 'unbelievable' and incredulous means 'unbelieving'

Synonyms: disbelieving, distrustful, doubtful, doubting, mistrustful, questioning, suspicious, uncertain, unconvinced, wary
Antonyms: believing, convinced
Etymology: 1570s, from Latin, from in- meaning "not" + credere meaning "to believe"
Morphology: incredible, incredulity
Example: The results of some science experiments may cause you to be incredulous.

2 comments:

Talented StudentSeptember 23, 2012 at 7:37 PM
Greta says,
It appears that the totsie hypothesis may have been tampered with after holding our own scientific process.
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Talented StudentSeptember 27, 2012 at 1:27 PM
Shelby says,On the Lonney Tones they said incredulous.
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