Antonyms for BELIEVE
bɪˈlivbe·lieve

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. believeverb

   Antonyms:
   distrust, doubt, doubt, mistrust, surmise, suspect

   Synonyms:
   confide in, depend on, depend upon, rely on, rely upon, trust

Matched Categories

1. • Accept
   • Believe
   • Credit
   • Expect
   • Judge
   • Religion

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:5.0 / 2 votes

1. believeverb

   accept as true; take to be true

   "I believed his report"; "We didn't believe his stories from the War"; "She believes in spirits"

   Antonyms:
   discredit, disbelieve

   Synonyms:
   consider, trust, conceive, think

2. think, believe, consider, conceiveverb

   judge or regard; look upon; judge

   "I think he is very smart"; "I believe her to be very smart"; "I think that he is her boyfriend"; "The racist conceives such people to be inferior"

   Antonyms:
   discredit, disbelieve

   Synonyms:
   cerebrate, conceptualize, suppose, mean, reckon, debate, trust, weigh, view, conceptualise, deliberate, take, study, call up, see, guess, deal, moot, think, intend, opine, recollect, imagine, count, recall, believe, turn over, call back, regard, gestate, consider, remember, cogitate, retrieve, conceive, look at

3. believe, trustverb

   be confident about something

   "I believe that he will come back from the war"

   Antonyms:
   disbelieve, discredit

   Synonyms:
   rely, desire, hope, commit, believe, confide, intrust, bank, conceive, trust, consider, think, swear, entrust

4. believeverb

   follow a credo; have a faith; be a believer

   "When you hear his sermons, you will be able to believe, too"

   Antonyms:
   disbelieve, discredit

   Synonyms:
   consider, trust, conceive, think

5. believeverb

   credit with veracity

   "You cannot believe this man"; "Should we believe a publication like the National Enquirer?"

   Antonyms:
   disbelieve, discredit

   Synonyms:
   consider, trust, conceive, think

Editors ContributionRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. decadentadjective

   accept as true; take to be true

   accept as true; take to be true

   Submitted by hfu656027 on September 9, 2021  

2. dhow

   accept as true; take to be true

   we didn't believe his stories from the war

   Submitted by Jack.Morgan25 on April 22, 2019  

3. expressly

   accept as true take to be true

   Submitted by anonymous on November 17, 2019  

4. horrendous

   accept as true; take to be true

   "we didn't believe his stories from the war"

   Submitted by rinat on June 11, 2017  

5. rarity

   accept as true:take to be true

   we didn't believe this story from the war.

   Submitted by rinat on September 23, 2019  

6. sphere of influence

   accept as true; take to be true

   "we didn't believe his stories from the war"

   Submitted by anonymous on November 17, 2019  

7. striving

   accept as true; take to be true

   "we didn't believe his stories from the war"

   Submitted by anonymous on November 21, 2019  

8. trust

   accept as true; take to be true

   "we didn't believe his stories from the war"

   Submitted by anonymous on April 2, 2020  

9. truth

   accept as true

   we didn’t believe his stories form the war

   Submitted by rinat on September 22, 2019  

How to use BELIEVE in a sentence?

1. Hillafter Trump:

   I think without the rhetoric, we would n’t have been here, i really believe that.

2. John McCain:

   I believe we could do better working together, Republicans and Democrats, and have not yet really tried, nor could I support it without knowing how much it would cost, how it will affect insurance premiums and how many people would be helped or hurt by it.

3. Elise Stefanik:

   I believe deeply in increasing funding for pregnancy crisis centers but also in advocating for moms and babies, and I have done that through leading the charge when it comes to Joe Biden’s baby formula crisis, so, it is interesting when we go on offense to expose how radical the Democrats are when it comes to their pro-abortion agenda, taxpayer-funded abortions, we win those voters.

4. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson:

   This is why we determined to take precautionary interim steps while this investigation is still ongoing. ISIL is out there now, active in a lot of different areas, and so while this investigation is pending -- and cause we have this group claiming responsibility -- we believe it's significant to do these things on an interim basis and to tell the public that we've done this, we want the public to know that our aviation security officials are very much focused on this.

5. Arnold Donald:

   We have an obligation to all our employees, and to the communities in which they work and live, to be the best corporate citizen we can be, we believe this approach best supports that objective.

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