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Believing - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | believing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | trusting |
| Synonyms: | assuming, certain, convinced, positive, presuming, sure, accepting, having faith, having faith, undoubting |
| Antonyms: | disbelieving, doubtful, doubting, uncertain, unsure, mistrustful, untrusting |
| Main Entry: | believe |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | trust, rely on |
| Synonyms: | accept, accredit, admit, affirm, attach weight to, be certain of, be convinced of, be credulous, be of the opinion, buy*, conceive, conclude, consider, count on, credit, deem, fall for*, give credence to, have, have faith in, have no doubt, hold, keep the faith, lap up, place confidence in, posit, postulate, presume true, presuppose, reckon on, regard, rest assured, suppose, swallow*, swear by, take as gospel, take at one's word, take for granted, take it, think, trust, understand |
| Antonyms: | disbelieve, distrust |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | believe |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | assume or suppose |
| Synonyms: | conjecture, consider, credit, deem, expect, feel, gather, guess, hold, imagine, judge, maintain, postulate, presume, reckon, sense, speculate, suppose, suspect, take, think, understand |
| Main Entry: | credulous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gullible, naive |
| Synonyms: | believing, born yesterday, easy mark*, green, simple, trusting, uncritical, unsophisticated, unsuspecting, unwary, accepting, dupable, falling for, overtrusting, swallow whole, taken in, trustful, unquestioning, unsuspicious |
| Notes: | credible means 'believable' and credulous means 'gullible' |
| Antonyms: | skeptical, suspicious, suspecting, untrusting |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gullible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | naive, trusting |
| Synonyms: | believing, biting, credulous, easy mark*, foolish, green*, innocent, mark*, silly, simple, sucker, susceptible, unsophisticated, unsuspecting, being a sucker, easily taken in, falling hook line and sinker, kidding oneself, swallowing whole, taken in, taking the bait, trustful, tumbling for, unskeptical, wide-eyed |
| Antonyms: | astute, discerning, knowledgeable, perceptive, suspicious, unbelieving, wise, untrusting |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | holy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | religious, sacred |
| Synonyms: | angelic, believing, blessed, chaste, clean, consecrated, dedicated, devoted, devotional, devout, divine, faithful, faultless, god-fearing, godlike, godly, good, hallowed, humble, immaculate, innocent, just, moral, perfect, pious, pure, reverent, righteous, sacrosanct, saintly, sanctified, seraphic, spiritual, spotless, sublime, undefiled, unworldly, upright, venerable, virtuous, glorified, messianic, pietistic, prayerful, revered, sainted, saintlike, uncorrupt, untainted, venerated |
| Antonyms: | depraved, evil, immoral, irreligious, irreverent, sacrilegious, sinful, unholy, vile, wicked, unsacred |
| Main Entry: | loyal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | faithful, dependable |
| Synonyms: | allegiant, ardent, attached, behind one, believing, coming through, constant, devoted, dutiful, dyed-in-the-wool*, firm, on one's side, patriotic, resolute, staunch, steadfast, steady, tried-and-true*, true, true-blue*, trustworthy, trusty, unfailing, unswerving, unwavering |
| Antonyms: | disloyal, undependable, unfaithful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | self-assured |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | self-confident |
| Synonyms: | assured, believing, bold, brave, cocksure*, cocky, confident, courageous, expectant, expecting, fearless, overconfident, positive, secure, sure, unafraid, full of oneself, puffed up, sure of oneself |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | trusting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | trustful |
| Synonyms: | believing, credulous, gullible, innocent, naive, unsuspecting, confiding, undoubting, unquestioning, unsuspicious |
| Main Entry: | certain |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | confident |
| Synonyms: | assertive, assured, believing, calm, cocksure, convinced, positive, sanguine, satisfied, secure, self-confident, sure, unconcerned, undisturbed, unperturbed, untroubled, questionless, undoubtful, undoubting |
| Antonyms: | doubtful, doubting, hesitant, uncertain, unsure, unconfident |
| Main Entry: | religious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | concerning belief in divinity |
| Synonyms: | believing, canonical, clerical, devotional, devout, divine, ecclesiastical, god-fearing, godly, holy, ministerial, moral, orthodox, pious, pontifical, pure, reverent, righteous, sacerdotal, sacred, sacrosanct, saintly, scriptural, sectarian, spiritual, supernatural, theological, born-again, churchgoing, churchly, deistic, doctrinal, pietistic, prayerful, priestly, saintlike, theistic |
| Antonyms: | agnostic, atheistic, irreligious, ungodly |
| Main Entry: | apprehend |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | understand |
| Synonyms: | absorb, accept, appreciate, believe, catch, comprehend, conceive, digest, fathom, get, grasp, have, imagine, know, perceive, read, realize, recognize, sense, think, get the picture |
| Antonyms: | misunderstand |
| Main Entry: | claim |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | demand, maintain property or right |
| Synonyms: | adduce, advance, allege, ask, assert, believe, call for, challenge, collect, declare, defend, exact, hit, hold, insist, justify, knock, need, pick up, pop the question*, postulate, pretend, profess, pronounce, require, requisition, solicit, take, uphold, vindicate, have dibs on something, hit up, hold out for, lay claim to, stake out |
| Antonyms: | deny, disclaim, question |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | conceive |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | understand |
| Synonyms: | accept, appreciate, apprehend, assume, believe, catch, compass, comprehend, deem, dig, envisage, expect, fancy, feel, follow, gather, get, grasp, imagine, judge, perceive, realize, reckon, suppose, suspect, take, twig |
| Antonyms: | misunderstand, not believe |
| Main Entry: | conjecture |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | speculate |
| Synonyms: | assume, believe, conceive, conclude, deem, estimate, expect, fancy, feel*, figure, gather, glean, guess, imagine, infer, judge, presume, pretend, suppose, surmise, suspect, theorize, think, guesstimate, hazard a guess, hypothesize, take a shot, take a stab, take for granted |
| Antonyms: | prove |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | consider |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | regard a certain way |
| Synonyms: | analyze, appraise, bear in mind, believe, count, credit, deem, estimate, feel, hold, judge, reflect, remember, respect, sense, suppose, take into account, think, view, care for, hold an opinion, keep in view, look upon, make allowance for, reckon with, set down, take for, think of |
| Antonyms: | abandon, dismiss, disregard, ignore, leave, reject |
| Main Entry: | count on/count upon |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | depend on; rely |
| Synonyms: | bank on, bargain for, believe, heed, score, swear by, tab, trust, aim for, believe in, bet bottom dollar, bet on, expect from, lean on, pin faith on, place confidence in, plan on, reckon on, rest on, stake on, take as gospel truth, take for granted, take on trust |
| Antonyms: | disbelieve, distrust, not expect |
| Main Entry: | deem |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | regard, consider |
| Synonyms: | account, allow, appraise, assume, believe, calculate, conceive, conjecture, credit, divine, esteem, estimate, expect, feel, guess, hold, imagine, judge, know, presume, reckon, sense, suppose, surmise, suspect, think, understand, view, be afraid, daresay, set store by |
| Main Entry: | estimate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | guess, try to value |
| Synonyms: | account, appraise, assay, assess, believe, budget, cast, cipher, class, classify, compute, conjecture, consider, count, decide, deduce, determine, enumerate, evaluate, examine, expect, figure, gauge, guess, judge, look into, number, outline, plan, predict, prophesy, rank, rate, reason, reckon, regard, scheme, sum, suppose, surmise, suspect, tax, think, calculate roughly, form opinion, guesstimate, look upon, run over, set a figure, size up*, think through* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fancy |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | imagine, create |
| Synonyms: | be inclined to think, believe, conceive, conjecture, dream up, envisage, envision, fantasize, feature*, guess, head trip, image, infer, make up, make up off top of one's head, phantom, picture, realize, reckon, spark, spitball, suppose, surmise, think, think likely, think up, trump up, vision, visualize |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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