Incredulous

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ɪnˈkɹɛdjÊŠlÉ™s/

Origin

From Latin incredulus ("unbelieving").

Full definition of incredulous

Adjective

1. Skeptical, disbelieving, or unable to believe. from 16th c.
• 1918, Edgar_Rice_Burroughs, ,Xodar listened in incredulous astonishment to my narration of the events which had transpired within the arena at the rites of Issus.
2. Expressing or indicative of incredulity. from 17th c.
• 2009,Reactions at Sun's campus, an hour's drive from San Francisco, ranged from the fearful to the incredulous.
3. (obsolete, except as 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, quoted in David C. Brody, James R. Acker, and Wayne A. Logan, Criminal Law,

• Faced with these facts, we find it incredulous that the defendant had any intent other than the armed robbery of the service station.

Derived terms

• incredulously

Related terms

• incredulity
• credulous