What are some opposite words for believe?

Antonyms for believe
bɪˈlivbe·lieve

This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term believe.

English Synonyms and Antonyms5.0 / 1 vote

  1. believeverb

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

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

Princeton's WordNet5.0 / 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, 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, 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 Contribution0.0 / 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. Chris Long:

    When my son grows up -- and I believe the legacy of our president is going to be what it is -- I don't want him to say, 'Hey dad, why'd you go when you knew the right thing was to not go,'.

  2. Ugo Betti:

    When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.

  3. President Donald Trump:

    Just as we believe in the First Amendment, we also believe in another constitutional right that is under siege all across our country. So long as I am President Donald Trump, I will always protect your Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.

  4. Frank Shaw:

    While we are disappointed with the additional delay we believe that we will ultimately be able to move forward with the work to make sure those who serve our country can access the new technology they urgently require, we have confidence in the Department of Defense, and we believe the facts will show they ran a detailed, thorough and fair process in determining the needs of the warfighter were best met by Microsoft.

  5. Mike Ryan:

    And I believe the authorities in Taiwan are working very closely with China in the mainland and I believe there have been joint missions and joint approaches to the response.

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#1069believe
#3643doubt
#6236suspect
#31101distrust
#36900discredit
#43337mistrust
#66872surmise
#82650disbelieve

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