incredulous adj : not disposed or willing to believe; unbelieving [ant: credulous]

English

Adjective

1. Skeptical, disbelieving, in shock.
2. In the context of "perhaps|_|nonstandard|of a fact or claim": Difficult to believe; incredible.
   • 1984, Supreme Court of Illinois, opinion in People v Terrell, 459 N.E.2d 1337,] quoted in David C. Brody, James R. Acker, and Wayne A. Logan, Criminal Law,[http://books.google.com/books?id=2ipUSeStAzQC Jones & Bartlett Publishers (2001), ISBN 0-8342-1083-5, page 564,

     Faced with these facts, we find it incredulous that defendant had any intent other than the armed robbery of the service station.

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Related terms

• incredulity
• incredulously
• credulous

Humean, Pyrrhonic, agnostic, cautious, creedless, disbelieving, disinclined to believe, disposed to doubt, distrustful, doubtful, doubting, dubious, faithless, guarded, hard of belief, heretical, hesitant, impervious to persuasion, inconvincible, irreligious, leery, minimifidian, mistrustful, nonbelieving, nullifidian, questioning, quizzical, repudiative, sceptical, shy of belief, skeptic, skeptical, suspecting, suspicious, unbelieving, uncertain, unconfident, unconverted, unconvinced, unconvincible, uncredulous, unpersuadable, unpersuasible, unsatisfied, unwilling to accept, wary, without faith