| 单词 | disbelief |
| 释义 | disbelief (once / 2854 pages) n When you express disbelief, you make it clear that you don't believe something is real or true. Your reaction to your little brother's stories about fairies is likely to be disbelief. You'll probably encounter a lot of disbelief if you go around telling everyone you saw a UFO. You'll feel a sense of disbelief yourself if you learn you've won the lottery. In both cases, it just doesn't seem possible or real. The belief part of disbelief comes from the Old English word geleafa, "belief or faith," which evolved into bileave before becoming belief. The prefix dis- means "not" or "the opposite of." WORD FAMILYdisbelief: disbeliefs+/belief: beliefs, disbelief, unbelief/believability: believabilities/believable: believability, believably, unbelievable/believe: belief, believable, believed, believer, believes, believing, disbelieve, misbelieve/believer: believers, nonbeliever, unbeliever/believing: believingly, believings, unbelieving/disbelieve: disbelieved, disbeliever, disbelieves, disbelieving/disbeliever: disbelievers/disbelieving: disbelievingly/misbelieve: misbelieved, misbeliever, misbelieves, misbelieving/misbeliever: misbelievers/nonbeliever: nonbelievers/unbelief: unbeliefs/unbelievable: unbelievably/unbeliever: unbelievers/unbelieving: unbelievingly USAGE EXAMPLESOn Sunday, nearly a century later, one of the most star-crossed infrastructure projects in the United States opened to gasps of disbelief. Los Angeles Times(Jan 01, 2017) I look around the room in disbelief as she says this: there is Catholic iconography everywhere. The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) “Ron,” said the other voice, with transparent disbelief. The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) 1n doubt about the truth of something Syn|Hyper incredulity, mental rejection, scepticism, skepticism doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, dubiousness, incertitude, uncertainty the state of being unsure of something 2n a rejection of belief Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper unbelief belief any cognitive content held as true agnosticism, scepticism, skepticism the disbelief in any claims of ultimate knowledge atheisma lack of belief in the existence of God or gods cognitive content, content, mental object the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned |
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