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单词 misbelief
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Definition of misbelief in English:

misbelief

noun mɪsbɪˈliːfˌmɪsbəˈlif
  • A wrong or false belief or opinion.

    the misbelief that alcohol problems require a specialist response
    Example sentencesExamples
    • If I were to say to her ‘Look mum, evolution discounts genesis’, she would not in any way be swayed in her misbelief.
    • They have to denounce their previous misbeliefs about the state, learn to love conformity and hate dissent.
    • A very common misbelief is that vehicle manufacturers want to save money.
    • There was also the misbelief among Singaporeans that Chinese businessmen faced corruption charges here because of their ethnic background - a notion underpinned by the 1998 May riots in which Chinese were targeted.
    • We, the inhabitants of the third world still labour under the misbelief that media is neutral.
    • These misbeliefs are commonly associated with schizophrenia, but they can also occur in people with brain injuries, Huntington's and Parkinson's disease and dementia.
    • What's keeping it going to a large extent are the misbeliefs about getting back to an active lifestyle.
    • Your reviewer is perhaps under the misbelief that a musicography is a work of fiction.
    • The misbelief that, once decriminalised, women in the industry will be able to choose their own working conditions and their own clients, and have industry health and safety standards in place are misplaced.
    • The misbelief that this screening programme is fully diagnostic undermines the importance of the programme evaluators.
    • A new project should help dispel commonly held misbeliefs about Aboriginal Australians.
    • He said that there is a common misbelief that ‘somehow cross-strait trade and investment will act as a brake on the leaders in Beijing from taking rash actions.’
    Synonyms
    false belief, unorthodoxy, heresy, wrong belief, delusion, illusion, fallacy, error, mistake, misconception, misapprehension

Derivatives

  • misbeliever

  • noun ˌmɪsbɪˈliːvəˌmɪsbəˈlivər
    • And all these misbelievers, these small professors of free-thinking, are usually grossly ignorant and stupid, and without exception, the most abandoned and vicious people of the place.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Extremely clever volumes all, they are calculated to cause discomfort among unbelievers and misbelievers of all educational levels.
      • Let us add that faith does not reason: which does not mean, as so many misbelievers feign, that faith is fulfilled by blindness or ignorance of the objects of its veneration.

Rhymes

aperitif, beef, belief, brief, chief, enfeoff, fief, grief, interleaf, leaf, Leif, lief, Mazar-e-Sharif, motif, naif, O'Keeffe, reef, seif, Sharif, sheaf, shereef, sportif, Tenerife, thief
 
 

Definition of misbelief in US English:

misbelief

nounˌmɪsbəˈlifˌmisbəˈlēf
  • A wrong or false belief or opinion.

    the misbelief that alcohol problems require a specialist response
    Example sentencesExamples
    • They have to denounce their previous misbeliefs about the state, learn to love conformity and hate dissent.
    • What's keeping it going to a large extent are the misbeliefs about getting back to an active lifestyle.
    • He said that there is a common misbelief that ‘somehow cross-strait trade and investment will act as a brake on the leaders in Beijing from taking rash actions.’
    • A very common misbelief is that vehicle manufacturers want to save money.
    • A new project should help dispel commonly held misbeliefs about Aboriginal Australians.
    • The misbelief that this screening programme is fully diagnostic undermines the importance of the programme evaluators.
    • If I were to say to her ‘Look mum, evolution discounts genesis’, she would not in any way be swayed in her misbelief.
    • The misbelief that, once decriminalised, women in the industry will be able to choose their own working conditions and their own clients, and have industry health and safety standards in place are misplaced.
    • Your reviewer is perhaps under the misbelief that a musicography is a work of fiction.
    • We, the inhabitants of the third world still labour under the misbelief that media is neutral.
    • These misbeliefs are commonly associated with schizophrenia, but they can also occur in people with brain injuries, Huntington's and Parkinson's disease and dementia.
    • There was also the misbelief among Singaporeans that Chinese businessmen faced corruption charges here because of their ethnic background - a notion underpinned by the 1998 May riots in which Chinese were targeted.
    Synonyms
    false belief, unorthodoxy, heresy, wrong belief, delusion, illusion, fallacy, error, mistake, misconception, misapprehension
 
 
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