incredulous
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
incredulous
- Skeptical, disbelieving, or unable to believe. [from 16th c.]
- 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Gods of Mars, Chapter 13
- Xodar listened in incredulous astonishment to my narration of the events which had transpired within the arena at the rites of Issus.
- 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Gods of Mars, Chapter 13
- Expressing or indicative of incredulity. [from 17th c.]
- 2009, Reuters (03-18-2009), “Sun Micro Troops Fearful, Incredulous About IBM”, in Wired.com[https://archive.is/20130630162201/http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/news/2009/03/reuters_us_sunmicro_ibm_profile_sb], archived from the original ↗ on 30 June 2013, retrieved 14 June 2009
- Reactions at Sun's campus, an hour's drive from San Francisco, ranged from the fearful to the incredulous.
- 2009, Reuters (03-18-2009), “Sun Micro Troops Fearful, Incredulous About IBM”, in Wired.com[https://archive.is/20130630162201/http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/news/2009/03/reuters_us_sunmicro_ibm_profile_sb], archived from the original ↗ on 30 June 2013, retrieved 14 June 2009
- (largely obsolete, now, only nonstandard) Difficult to believe; incredible. [from 17th c.]
- 1601, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, III.4:
- Why euery thing adheres togither, that no dramme of a scruple, no scruple of a scruple, no obstacle, no incredulous or vnsafe circumstance [...].
- 1984, Supreme Court of Illinois, opinion in People v Terrell, 459 N.E.2d 1337,[http://www.sagepub.com/lippmanstudy/07/youdecide.htm ] 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 [the] defendant had any intent other than the armed robbery of the service station.
- 1601, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, III.4:
- Russian: невероя́тный
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