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Sometimes I read a script and it's obvious from early on that it's one where the suspension of disbelief has to develop strongly from page one. Some are more reality-based.
Gillian Anderson

Meaning of "disbelief" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DISBELIEF

disbelief  [ˌdɪsbɪˈliːf] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DISBELIEF

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Disbelief is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DISBELIEF MEAN IN ENGLISH?

disbelief

Disbelief

Disbelief is a metal band from Hesse, Germany. Their music is rooted in death metal, but has melancholic tendencies.

Definition of disbelief in the English dictionary

The definition of disbelief in the dictionary is refusal or reluctance to believe.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DISBELIEF


bas-relief
ˌbɑːrɪˈliːf
bass-relief
ˌbeɪsrɪˈliːf
belief
bɪˈliːf
broadleaf
ˈbrɔːdˌliːf
cloverleaf
ˈkləʊvəˌliːf
demirelief
ˌdɛmɪrɪˈliːf
disleaf
dɪsˈliːf
drop-leaf
ˈdrɒpˌliːf
flyleaf
ˈflaɪˌliːf
leaf
liːf
lief
liːf
longleaf
ˈlɒŋliːf
misbelief
ˌmɪsbɪˈliːf
nonbelief
ˌnɒnbɪˈliːf
oakleaf
ˈəʊkˌliːf
overleaf
ˌəʊvəˈliːf
relief
rɪˈliːf
self-belief
ˌsɛlfbɪˈliːf
unbelief
ˌʌnbɪˈliːf
waterleaf
ˈwɔːtərˌliːf

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DISBELIEF

disband
disbandment
disbar
disbarment
disbarred
disbarring
disbelieve
disbeliever
disbelieving
disbelievingly
disbench
disbenefit
disbodied
disbosom
disbound
disbowel
disbowelled
disbranch
disbud
disbudded

WORDS THAT END LIKE DISBELIEF

comic relief
debt relief
disaster relief
executive relief
high relief
low relief
mortgage relief
on relief
out-relief
outdoor relief
pain relief
photo relief
retirement relief
taper relief
tax relief
transitional relief

Synonyms and antonyms of disbelief in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «DISBELIEF»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «disbelief» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of disbelief

Translation of «disbelief» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DISBELIEF

Find out the translation of disbelief to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of disbelief from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «disbelief» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

怀疑
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

incredulidad
570 millions of speakers

English

disbelief
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अविश्वास
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الكفر
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

неверию
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

incredulidade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অবিশ্বাস
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

incrédulité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tidak percaya
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Ungläubigkeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

不信
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

불신
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kuciwa
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

vô tôn giáo
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நிராகரிப்பின்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अविश्वास
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

güvensizlik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

incredulità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

niewiary
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

невірству
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

neîncredere
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

δυσπιστία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ongeloof
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

otro
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

vantro
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of disbelief

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DISBELIEF»

The term «disbelief» is quite widely used and occupies the 30.910 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DISBELIEF» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «disbelief» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «disbelief» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about disbelief

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10 QUOTES WITH «DISBELIEF»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word disbelief.
1
Gillian Anderson
Sometimes I read a script and it's obvious from early on that it's one where the suspension of disbelief has to develop strongly from page one. Some are more reality-based.
2
Richard Dean Anderson
You have to suspend disbelief a little bit to buy into your situation and to the story and to how the character will react. You have to tweak your credibility a little bit, is basically what it comes down to.
3
Andrew Buchan
When someone dies instantly, then I think the well of grief and disbelief all mixed in with it is unfathomable. And when murder is involved, that just takes it into a whole new place. There is an extra dimension you just can't compute or deal with.
4
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
5
Seth Grahame-Smith
It's absurd to think of 'Pride and Prejudice,' this classic, beloved book, beset with a zombie uprising. The goal is to make you suspend your disbelief enough to allow you to get lost in the story and believe what you're reading for a while.
6
Israel Horovitz
Theatre's great. It's such an act of faith. It's a wonderful art form where you suspend disbelief for a couple of hours. It's a lovely art form because the actors and the audience are alive and in the room at the same time together. That's why I love the theatre.
7
David Henry Hwang
With theatre, we all agree to suspend our disbelief about so many things, but not about race. It's totally OK to have one actor playing five roles - people are willing to believe that. But they won't believe it if there's a black or an Asian kid who has white parents. What does that say about us?
8
Tom Mison
I always like to have faith that an audience will suspend their disbelief, if you present it to them in the right way. I find it peculiar when people scoff at one bold idea, and yet they'll then turn over and watch a man travel through time in a police phone box. I think it's just how you present the idea.
9
Roger Mudd
The written tone and the spoken tone change and the reporters' disbelief in the veracity of the government spreads to the readers and the viewers.
10
James Nachtwey
If I'm feeling outraged, grief, disbelief, frustration, sympathy, that gets channeled through me and into my pictures and hopefully transmitted to the viewer.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DISBELIEF»

Discover the use of disbelief in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to disbelief and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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50 Voices of Disbelief: Why We Are Atheists
50 Voices of Disbelief: Why We Are Atheists presents a collection of original essays drawn from an international group of prominent voices in the fields of academia, science, literature, media and politics who offer carefully considered ...
Russell Blackford, Udo Schüklenk, 2011
2
The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics ...
In an updated version of his successful book, the author of Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby argues that religion can play a role in the nation's politics, law and culture while maintaining its separation from state. Reprint.
Stephen L. Carter, 1993
3
Willing Suspension of Disbelief: Poetic Faith in Film
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 1817 term, a 'willing suspension of disbelief, ' has survived and been used by film critics and others to describe what happens when a movie viewer watches a movie.
Anthony J. Ferri, 2007
4
Perception, Knowledge and Disbelief: A Study of Jayarasi's ...
Notwithstanding that it has been hitherto almost completely ignored. The present book consists of an introduction detailed analysis edition translation with extensive notes of the first half of the text.
Eli Franco, 1994
5
Pascal and Disbelief: Catechesis and Conversion in the Pensees
Seeks to answer a question that has puzzled readers since the Pensees -- a work conceived principally as an Apology for the Christian Religion -- first appeared in 1670: To whom is Pascal's call to Christian conversion really addressed?
David Wetsel, 1995
6
Suspending Disbelief: Theatre as Context for Sharing
Foreword by Barbara Jefford OBE (‘an actress of powerful address, whose Lady Macbeth ranks among the finest of the post-war era’, The Everyman Companion to Shakespeare Postscript by Sin Phillips CBE, Livia in the classic BBC series I ...
Roger Grainger, 2010
7
Handing on the Faith in an Age of Disbelief: Lectures Given ...
Handing on the Faith in an Age of Disbelief brings together the four illuminating lectures presented at those meetings, along with commentaries by Pierre Eyt, Bernard Bro, O.P., Georges Bonnet, and Jacques Guillet, S.J. Also included is a ...
Pope Benedict XVI, Dermot Ryan, Franciszek Macharski, 2006
8
Disbelief
Poems deal with nature, travel, home, play, romanticism, language, music, memories, stories, and the sky
John Ash, 1987
9
2000 Years of Disbelief: Famous People with the Courage to Doubt
This collection chronicles dozens of famous people such as Isaac Asimov, W.E.B. DuBois, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Benjamin Franklin, Omar Khayyam, Abraham Lincoln, James Madison, John Stuart Mill, Ayn Rand, Gene ...
James A. Haught, 1996
10
Brian Jacques's Redwall Series: Suspension of Disbelief and ...
A number of things are discussed, including: what the adolescent reader can gain from having a variety of heroes; ideas of moral education, including the conflict of good versus evil, stereotyping, and character development, and what these ...
Sharon L. Kofoed, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DISBELIEF»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term disbelief is used in the context of the following news items.
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Did that really happen? Blues in disbelief | SBS News
NSW forward Hoffman says he's still in disbelief over the Blues' record 52-6 capitulation in Wednesday night's State of Origin decider. Source:. «SBS, Jul 15»
2
Family in disbelief over apparent homicide of Longview woman …
Gregg County investigators are trying to determine where a Longview woman was, and who she was with, in the hours that lead up to her death ... «KLTV, Jul 15»
3
Regulators usher in winter of disbelief
Regulation is weighed down by negative connotations: red tape, government intervention, long processes with mind-numbing technical detail. «BDlive, Jul 15»
4
Matthew Fisher: 'No' victory gives Greece a feel-good moment while …
The view elsewhere in Europe was total disbelief — if not outright derision — at their euphoria when financial collapse appeared imminent. «National Post, Jul 15»
5
Wife of Gary Lineker in disbelief at Doncaster man's bottom 'crisps …
The wife of TV soccer pundit Gary Lineker has taken to Twitter to express her shock at a Doncaster man who had a bizarre tribute to her ... «The Star, Jul 15»
6
Friends in disbelief after police say woman killed daughter, two …
Elizabeth Flores, Xavier Neff and Sofia Chiddo were fatally shot by Flores' mother Nilda Sheffield before she killed herself, Greenacres police ... «Sun Sentinel, Jul 15»
7
Disbelief over Chelsea Clinton's $65000 speaking fee
The reaction from around the Twitterverse to news that a university paid $65,000 for Chelsea Clinton to make a brief appearance in 2014 can ... «New York Post, Jun 15»
8
Civic lovers' lament: Disbelief and sorrow that a “close friend” is gone
They streamed slowly under the Amazon Parkway overpass all morning on Tuesday, like cars in a funeral procession, the drivers and their ... «The Register-Guard, Jun 15»
9
Art That: A) Amuses, B) Challenges, C) Leaves Us in Disbelief
There's a huge difference between looking at art, and actually seeing it. When I make this statement during the lectures and seminars, people ... «Huffington Post, Jun 15»
10
Evangelicals in disbelief over SCOTUS ruling
While gay marriage proponents continue to celebrate the U.S. Supreme Court's Friday decision legalizing same-sex marriage in all 50 states, ... «News Courier, Jun 15»

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