incredulous

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Skeptical, disbelieving, or unable to believe.

   • Xodar listened in incredulous astonishment to my narration of the events which had transpired within the arena at the rites of Issus.
   • In safe flats and dark restaurants, never the same one twice, we ate quiet meals, exchanged our goods and gazed upon each other with the incredulous contentment that passes between mountaineers when they are standing on the peak.
2. 2

   Expressing or indicative of incredulity.

   • Reactions at Sun's campus, an hour's drive from San Francisco, ranged from the fearful to the incredulous.
3. 3

   Difficult to believe

   Difficult to believe; incredible.

   • Why euery thing adheres togither, that no dramme of a scruple, no scruple of a scruple, no obstacle, no incredulous or vnsafe circumstance […].
   • Maybe David Ruben had some valid points about the ACLU on the national level from an historical perspective, although critcizing a non-gay organization for not loudly defending gay rights in 1952 seems a little incredulous.

The neighborhood

• neighborincredulity
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