Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Unbelief. Doubt

Nouns
  • unbelief, disbelief, misbelief
  • discredit, miscreance
  • infidelity etc. (irreligion) Irreligion
  • dissent etc. Dissent
  • change of opinion etc. Belief
  • retraction etc. Tergiversation. doubt etc. (uncertainty) Uncertainty
  • skepticism, scepticism, misgiving, demure
  • distrust, mistrust, cynicism
  • misdoubt, suspicion, jealousy, scruple, qualm
  • incredibleness
  • incredulity. [person who doubts] doubter, skeptic, cynic.
  • unbeliever etc. Incredulity.
Verbs
  • disbelieve, discredit
  • not believe etc. Belief
  • misbelieve
  • refuse to admit etc. (dissent) Dissent
  • refuse to believe etc. (incredulity) Incredulity. doubt
  • be doubtful etc. (uncertain) Uncertainty
  • doubt the truth of
  • be skeptical as to etc. adj.
  • diffide
  • distrust, mistrust
  • suspect, smoke, scent, smell a rat
  • have doubts, harbor doubts, entertain doubts, suspicions
  • have one's doubts. demure, stick at, pause, hesitate, scruple
  • stop to consider, waver. hang in suspense, hang in doubt. throw doubt upon, raise a question
  • bring in, call in question
  • question, challenge, dispute
  • deny etc. Negation
  • cavil
  • cause a doubt, raise a doubt, start a doubt, suggest a doubt, awake a doubt, make suspicion
  • ergotize. startle, stagger
  • shake one's faith, shake one's belief, stagger one's faith, stagger one's belief.
Adjectives
  • unbelieving
  • skeptical, sceptical. incredulous as to, skeptical as to
  • distrustful as to, shy as to, suspicious of
  • doubting etc. v.. doubtful etc. (uncertain) Uncertainty
  • disputable
  • unworthy of, undeserving of belief etc. Belief
  • questionable
  • suspect, suspicious
  • open to suspicion, open to doubt
  • staggering, hard to believe, incredible, unbelievable, not to be believed, inconceivable
  • impossible etc. Impossibility. fallible etc. (uncertain) Uncertainty
  • undemonstrable
  • controvertible etc. (untrue) Error.
Adverbs
  • with a grain of salt
  • with grains of allowance.
Phrases
  • timeo Danaos et dona ferentes" [Vergil], I fear the Greeks even when bearing gifts, beware of Greeks bearing gifts
  • let those believe who may