unbelieving
/ˌʌnbɪˈliːvɪŋ
/adjective
1Not believing someone or something; incredulous: Drew could only stand there, wide-eyed and unbelieving...
- I have known people on the verge of surgery for cancer or bypass surgery who have been declared healed by their unbelieving doctors.
- I blinked, unbelieving, at a churning mass of flames fully 2000-ft across.
- Unbelieving, wide-eyed tourists pressed their noses up to the cage to get a better look.
Synonyms
faithless, non-believing, agnostic, atheistic, non-theistic, heathen, pagan, infidel, irreligious, unenlightened;
disbelieving, doubting, doubtful, sceptical, cynical, unconvinced, incredulous
1.1Having no religious beliefs, or not following a particular religion: they were to preach to the unbelieving people...
- Jesus said the unbelieving world will know Christians by their love for each other.
- But the ministers I called on were all unbelieving men and modernists.
- The example of St George, his faith and his courage, are needed today in a wicked and unbelieving world.
Derivatives
unbelievingly
- As I stood there staring disconsolately, unbelievingly, into the pot, what I saw there was not cooking water but a kind of elemental cream of asparagus soup.
- ‘No,’ Edward said unbelievingly, ‘There's no way.’
- Hannah gaped unbelievingly at what he carried.
Rhymes
- unpenitent
- unpenned
- unpensioned
- unpent
- unpeople
- unpeopled
- unpeppered
- unperceivable
- unperceivableness
- unperceivably
- unperceived
- unperceivedly
- unperceiving
- unperceptable
- unperceptible
- unperceptive
- unperceptively
- unperceptiveness
- unperch
- unperched
- unperfect
- unperfected
- unperfection
- unperfective
- unperfectly