adj
Freq #51500
Meanings
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1
adj
Skeptical, disbelieving, or unable to believe.
Xodar listened in incredulous astonishment to my narration of the events which had transpired within the arena at the rites of Issus.
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2
adj
Expressing or indicative of incredulity.
Reactions at Sun's campus, an hour's drive from San Francisco, ranged from the fearful to the incredulous.
Thesaurus
Word family
Forms
incredulously
Derived forms
incredulosityincredulouslyincredulousness
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin incrēdulus (“unbelieving”).