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Meaning of UNBELIEVING

Pronunciation:  `unbi'leeving

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [adj]  denying or questioning the tenets of especially a religion; "a skeptical approach to the nature of miracles"
  2. [adj]  holding that only material phenomena can be known and knowledge of spiritual matters or ultimate causes is impossible
  3. [adj]  rejecting any belief in gods
 
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 Synonyms: agnostic, agnostical, atheistic, atheistical, disbelieving, incredulous, irreligious, nescient, sceptical, skeptical
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Un`be*liev"ing\, a.
1. Not believing; incredulous; doubting; distrusting;
   skeptical.
2. Believing the thing alleged no to be true; disbelieving;
   especially, believing that Bible is not a divine
   revelation, or that Christ was not a divine or a
   supernatural person. ``Unbelieving Jews.'' --Acts xiv. 2.
   -- {Un`be*liev"ing*ly}, adv. -- -- {Un`be*liev"ing*ness},
   n.
 

 

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