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believe
be·lieve B0170900 (bĭ-lēv′)v. be·lieved, be·liev·ing, be·lieves v.tr.1. To accept as true or real: Do you believe the news stories?2. To credit with veracity: I believe you.3. To expect or suppose; think: I believe they will arrive shortly.v.intr.1. To have firm faith, especially religious faith.2. To have faith, confidence, or trust: I believe in your ability to solve the problem.3. To have confidence in the truth or value of something: We believe in free speech.4. To have an opinion; think: They have already left, I believe.Idioms: believe (one's) ears To trust what one has heard. believe (one's) eyes To trust what one has seen.
[Middle English bileven, from Old English belȳfan, belēfan, gelēfan; see leubh- in Indo-European roots.]
be·liev′er n.believe (bɪˈliːv) vb1. (tr; may take a clause as object) to accept (a statement, supposition, or opinion) as true: I believe God exists. 2. (tr) to accept the statement or opinion of (a person) as true3. (foll by: in) to be convinced of the truth or existence (of): to believe in fairies. 4. (intr) to have religious faith5. (when tr, takes a clause as object) to think, assume, or suppose: I believe that he has left already. 6. (tr; foll by of; used with can, could, would, etc) to think that someone is able to do (a particular action): I wouldn't have believed it of him. [Old English beliefan] beˈlievaˌbility n beˈlievable adj beˈlievably adv beˈliever n beˈlieving n, adjbe•lieve (bɪˈliv)
v. -lieved, -liev•ing. v.i. 1. to have confidence in the truth, existence, reliability, or value of something. 2. to have religious faith. v.t. 3. to have confidence or faith in the truth of: I can't believe that story. 4. to have confidence in the assertions of (a person). 5. to hold as an opinion; suppose; think: I believe they are out of town. [1150–1200; Middle English bileven, late Old English belȳfan, belēfan] be•liev`a•bil′i•ty, be•liev′a•ble•ness, n. be•liev′a•ble, adj. be•liev′a•bly, adv. believe1. 'believe'If you believe someone or believe what they say, you think that what they say is true. I don't believe you.Don't believe anything you read in that newspaper.If you believe that something is true, you think that it is true. I believe some of those lakes are over a hundred feet deep.Police believe that the fire was started deliberately.Be Careful!
Believe is not used in the progressive. Don't say, for example, 'I am believing you'. You say 'I believe you'. I believe that these findings should be presented to your readers.2. 'don't believe'Instead of saying that you 'believe that something is not' true, you usually say that you don't believe that it is true. I just don't believe that Alan had anything to do with it.3. passive formsYou can say either that it is believed that something is true, or that something is believed to be true. For example, you can say 'It is believed that the building is 700 years old' or 'The building is believed to be 700 years old'. It is believed that two prisoners have escaped.This is widely believed to be the tallest tree in England.4. 'believe in'If you believe in something, you think that it exists. I don't believe in ghosts.My children still believe in Father Christmas.If you believe in an idea or policy, you think it is good or right. We believe in freedom of speech.believe
Past participle: believed
Gerund: believing
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| I believe | | you believe | | he/she/it believes | | we believe | | you believe | | they believe |
| Preterite |
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| I believed | | you believed | | he/she/it believed | | we believed | | you believed | | they believed |
| Present Continuous |
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| I am believing | | you are believing | | he/she/it is believing | | we are believing | | you are believing | | they are believing |
| Present Perfect |
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| I have believed | | you have believed | | he/she/it has believed | | we have believed | | you have believed | | they have believed |
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| I was believing | | you were believing | | he/she/it was believing | | we were believing | | you were believing | | they were believing |
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| I had believed | | you had believed | | he/she/it had believed | | we had believed | | you had believed | | they had believed |
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| I will believe | | you will believe | | he/she/it will believe | | we will believe | | you will believe | | they will believe |
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| I will have believed | | you will have believed | | he/she/it will have believed | | we will have believed | | you will have believed | | they will have believed |
| Future Continuous |
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| I will be believing | | you will be believing | | he/she/it will be believing | | we will be believing | | you will be believing | | they will be believing |
| Present Perfect Continuous |
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| I have been believing | | you have been believing | | he/she/it has been believing | | we have been believing | | you have been believing | | they have been believing |
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| I will have been believing | | you will have been believing | | he/she/it will have been believing | | we will have been believing | | you will have been believing | | they will have been believing |
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| I had been believing | | you had been believing | | he/she/it had been believing | | we had been believing | | you had been believing | | they had been believing |
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| I would believe | | you would believe | | he/she/it would believe | | we would believe | | you would believe | | they would believe |
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| I would have believed | | you would have believed | | he/she/it would have believed | | we would have believed | | you would have believed | | they would have believed |
Thesaurus| Verb | 1. | believe - accept as true; take to be true; "I believed his report"; "We didn't believe his stories from the War"; "She believes in spirits"understand, infer - believe to be the case; "I understand you have no previous experience?"swallow - believe or accept without questioning or challenge; "Am I supposed to swallow that story?"buy - accept as true; "I can't buy this story"believe - follow a credo; have a faith; be a believer; "When you hear his sermons, you will be able to believe, too"accept - consider or hold as true; "I cannot accept the dogma of this church"; "accept an argument"rely, trust, swear, bank - have confidence or faith in; "We can trust in God"; "Rely on your friends"; "bank on your good education"; "I swear by my grandmother's recipes"believe in - have a firm conviction as to the goodness of something; "John believes in oat bran"disbelieve, discredit - reject as false; refuse to accept | | 2. | believe - judge or regard; look upon; judge; "I think he is very smart"; "I believe her to be very smart"; "I think that he is her boyfriend"; "The racist conceives such people to be inferior"think, conceive, considerhold - remain committed to; "I hold to these ideas"pass judgment, evaluate, judge - form a critical opinion of; "I cannot judge some works of modern art"; "How do you evaluate this grant proposal?" "We shouldn't pass judgment on other people"rethink - change one's mind; "He rethought his decision to take a vacation"think - dispose the mind in a certain way; "Do you really think so?"look upon, regard as, repute, take to be, esteem, look on, think of - look on as or consider; "she looked on this affair as a joke"; "He thinks of himself as a brilliant musician"; "He is reputed to be intelligent"feel - have a feeling or perception about oneself in reaction to someone's behavior or attitude; "She felt small and insignificant"; "You make me feel naked"; "I made the students feel different about themselves"consider, regard, view, reckon, see - deem to be; "She views this quite differently from me"; "I consider her to be shallow"; "I don't see the situation quite as negatively as you do" | | 3. |  believe - be confident about something; "I believe that he will come back from the war"trustanticipate, expect - regard something as probable or likely; "The meteorologists are expecting rain for tomorrow" | | 4. |  believe - follow a credo; have a faith; be a believer; "When you hear his sermons, you will be able to believe, too"faith, religion, religious belief - a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny; "he lost his faith but not his morality"believe - accept as true; take to be true; "I believed his report"; "We didn't believe his stories from the War"; "She believes in spirits"misbelieve - hold a false or unorthodox belief | | 5. | believe - credit with veracity; "You cannot believe this man"; "Should we believe a publication like the National Enquirer?"credit - have trust in; trust in the truth or veracity of |
believeverb1. think, consider, judge, suppose, maintain, estimate, imagine, assume, gather, guess (informal, chiefly U.S. & Canad.), reckon, conclude, deem, speculate, presume, conjecture, postulate, surmise I believe you have something of mine.2. accept, hold, buy (slang), trust, credit, depend on, rely on, swallow (informal), count on, buy into (slang), have faith in, swear by, be certain of, be convinced of, place confidence in, presume true, take as gospel, take on (U.S.) Don't believe what you read in the papers.
accept question, doubt, distrust, disbelievebelieve in someone trust in, have faith in, place reliance on, place your trust in, pin your faith on, place confidence in If you believe in yourself you can succeed.believe in something advocate, champion, approve of, swear by He believed in marital fidelity.Quotations
"To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting" [Stanislaus I of Poland Maxims]
"Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable" [Oscar Wilde The Decay of Lying]
"We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe" [Cardinal Newman Letter to Mrs William Froude]
"It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what one does not believe" [Thomas Paine The Age of Reason]
"Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe" Bible: St. John
"Though ye believe not me, believe the works" Bible: St. Johnbelieveverb1. To regard (something) as true or real:accept.Slang: buy, swallow.2. To have confidence in the truthfulness of:credit, trust.Idiom: take at one's word.3. To have an opinion:consider, deem, hold, opine, think.Informal: figure, judge.Idiom: be of the opinion.4. To view in a certain way:feel, hold, sense, think.5. To regard in an appraising way:repute, suppose, think.phrasal verb
believe inTo place trust or confidence in:bank on (or upon), count on (or upon), depend on (or upon), reckon on (or upon), rely on (or upon), trust (in).Translationsbelieve (biˈliːv) verb1. to regard (something) as true. I believe his story. 相信 相信2. to trust (a person), accepting what he says as true. I believe you. 信任 信任3. to think (that). I believe he's ill. 認為 认为beˈlievable adjective 可信的 可信任的beˈlief (-f) noun1. faith or trust. I have no belief in his ability. 相信，信任 相信2. (often in plural) something believed. Christian beliefs. 信仰 信仰beˈliever noun a person who has (especially religious) beliefs. a true believer. 信仰者 信仰者believe in to accept the existence or recognize the value of (something). Do you believe in ghosts?; He believes in capital punishment. 相信...的存在，認同…的價值 信仰，相信......的存在/价值 believe → 猜想zhCN, 相信zhCN, 笃信宗教zhCNbelieve
See:- (I) don't believe I've had the pleasure
- (one) can hardly believe (one's) eyes
- (one) can scarcely believe (one's) eyes
- (one) can't believe (one's) ears
- a/the liar is not believed when he tells the truth
- believe (one's) ears
- believe (one's) eyes
- believe (something) of (someone)
- believe ears
- believe eyes
- believe in
- believe in (someone or something)
- believe it or not
- believe me
- believe nothing of what you hear, and only half of what you see
- believe of
- believe one's ears
- believe one's own eyes, one cannot
- believe you me
- Believe you me!
- couldn't believe (one's) eyes
- don't believe I've had the pleasure
- don't you believe it
- don't you believe it!
- give (one) to believe
- give (one) to understand
- give somebody to believe/understand...
- hard to believe
- have to be seen to be believed
- I believe so
- I believe we've met
- I can't believe it/that/this
- I can't believe!
- I do believe
- I don’t believe this!
- I don't believe it
- I don't believe it!
- I don't believe this
- I don't believe this!
- I guess
- if you believe that, you'll believe anything
- I'll believe it when I see it
- I'll believe it/that when I see it
- lead (one) to believe
- lead somebody to believe
- lead to believe
- liar is not believed when he tells the truth
- make believe
- make believe that
- not believe (one's) ears
- not believe (one's) eyes
- not believe a word of it
- not believe ears
- not believe eyes
- not believe your eyes/ears
- Seeing is believing
- would you believe (it)
- Would you believe!
- Would you believe?
- You better believe it!
- You can't expect me to believe that
- You had better believe it!
- you('d) better believe it
- you/you'd better believe it!
- you'd better believe it
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Synonyms for believeverb thinkSynonyms- think
- consider
- judge
- suppose
- maintain
- estimate
- imagine
- assume
- gather
- guess
- reckon
- conclude
- deem
- speculate
- presume
- conjecture
- postulate
- surmise
verb acceptSynonyms- accept
- hold
- buy
- trust
- credit
- depend on
- rely on
- swallow
- count on
- buy into
- have faith in
- swear by
- be certain of
- be convinced of
- place confidence in
- presume true
- take as gospel
- take on
Antonyms- question
- doubt
- distrust
- disbelieve
phrase believe in someoneSynonyms- trust in
- have faith in
- place reliance on
- place your trust in
- pin your faith on
- place confidence in
phrase believe in somethingSynonyms- advocate
- champion
- approve of
- swear by
Synonyms for believeverb to regard (something) as true or realSynonymsverb to have confidence in the truthfulness ofSynonymsverb to have an opinionSynonyms- consider
- deem
- hold
- opine
- think
- figure
- judge
verb to view in a certain waySynonymsverb to regard in an appraising waySynonymsphrase believe in: to place trust or confidence inSynonyms- bank on
- count on
- depend on
- reckon on
- rely on
- trust
Synonyms for believeverb accept as trueRelated Words- understand
- infer
- swallow
- buy
- believe
- accept
- rely
- trust
- swear
- bank
- believe in
Antonymsverb judge or regardSynonymsRelated Words- hold
- pass judgment
- evaluate
- judge
- rethink
- think
- look upon
- regard as
- repute
- take to be
- esteem
- look on
- think of
- feel
- consider
- regard
- view
- reckon
- see
verb be confident about somethingSynonymsRelated Wordsverb follow a credoRelated Words- faith
- religion
- religious belief
- believe
- misbelieve
verb credit with veracityRelated Words |