unbelieving
1
6.8
- adjective
- /ˌʌnbɪˈliːvɪŋ/
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- I pray it will also be an encouragement to all wives who have unbelieving husbands and to husbands who have unbelieving wives.
Examples
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In this verse is threatened the vengeance of God on the wicked, unbelieving Israelites, who were God's visible people and who lived under the means of grace.
Blog text (31) -
Team ministry provides a platform for demonstrating to the unbelieving world just who Christ is and who we are in Christ.
Blog text (26) -
Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.
Blog text (13) -
This should greatly motivate us to take the gospel to our unbelieving family members now.
Blog text (21) -
But at an early age, I sided with my father, an unbelieving Irishman who, if he was home on Christmas Eve, took me to church to hear the music.
Fiction book (2000) -
Those who had faith in His message for their time, and who acted out their faith in obedience to His commandments, escaped the judgments that fell upon the disobedient and unbelieving.
Blog text (10) -
Many people in the city are unbelieving, questioning the existence of any higher power.
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His unbelieving attitude made it hard for him to accept the traditional rituals of the community.
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She spoke to her unbelieving friends about her experience of finding faith.
Synonyms
35
7.0
Not believing in God or following any religion
21
4.4
Relating to people who do not believe in any god
12
5.1
Not sure that something is true or will work
12
6.7
Not believing in any gods
3
8.6
Not interested in religion or being against it
1
4.7
Not accepting that something is true, often showing doubt
1
7.9
Not believing in gods
1
6.0
Not believing in a god or taking part in worship
Not believing in God or gods
Not believing in religious ideas or practices
Not belonging to or following any religion
Antonyms
How Believing
Surface Forms
Morphology
unbelieving = believing (transparent) = un + believe + ing
Clear negation by the productive prefix 'un-' applied to 'believing', yielding 'not believing' (here specifically lacking religious faith).
Etymology
Unbelieving is made of the negative un- ('not') and believing from believe ('to accept or have faith'), just like in belief. So unbelieving means 'not having faith' and is often used for people who do not believe in God or spiritual things.