ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

V. disbelieve, discredit; not believe &c 484; misbelieve † ; refuse to admit &c (dissent)
489; refuse to believe &c (incredulity) 487.
doubt; be doubtful &c (uncertain) 475; doubt the truth of; be skeptical as to &c adj.;
diffide † ; distrust, mistrust; suspect, smoke, scent, smell a rat; have doubts, harbor doubts,
entertain doubts, suspicions; have one's doubts.
demure, stick at, pause, hesitate, scruple; stop to consider, waver.
hang in suspense, hang in doubt.
throw doubt upon, raise a question; bring in, call in question; question, challenge,
dispute; deny &c 536; cavil; cause a doubt, raise a doubt, start a doubt, suggest a doubt,
awake a doubt, make suspicion; ergotize † .
startle, stagger; shake one's faith, shake one's belief, stagger one's faith, stagger one's
belief.
Adj. unbelieving; skeptical, sceptical.
incredulous as to, skeptical as to; distrustful as to, shy as to, suspicious of; doubting
&c v.. doubtful &c (uncertain) 475; disputable; unworthy of, undeserving of belief &c
484; questionable; suspect, suspicious; open to suspicion, open to doubt; staggering, hard
to believe, incredible, unbelievable, not to be believed, inconceivable; impossible &c
471.
fallible &c (uncertain) 475; undemonstrable; controvertible &c (untrue) 495.
Adv. cum grano salis [Lat.], with a grain of salt; with grains of allowance.
Phr. fronti nulla fides [Lat.]; nimium ne crede colori [Lat.] [Vergil]; timeo Danaos et
dona ferentes [Vergil], I fear the Greeks even when bearing gifts, beware of Greeks
bearing gifts; credat Judaeus Apella [Lat.] [Horace]; let those believe who may; ad
tristem partem stenua est suspicio [Lat.] [Syrus].
486. Credulity -- N. credulity, credulousness &c adj.; cullibility † , gullibility; gross
credulity, infatuation; self delusion, self deception; superstition; one's blind side; bigotry
&c (obstinacy) 606; hyperorthodoxy &c 984 [Obs.]; misjudgment &c 481.
credulous person &c (dupe) 547.
V. be credulous &c adj.; jurare in verba magistri [Lat.]; follow implicitly; swallow, gulp
down; take on trust; take for granted, take for gospel; run away with a notion, run away
with an idea; jump to a conclusion, rush to a conclusion; think the moon is made of green
cheese; take for granted, grasp the shadow for the substance; catch at straws, grasp at
straws.
impose upon &c (deceive) 545.
Adj. credulous, gullible; easily deceived &c 545; simple, green, soft, childish, silly,
stupid; easily convinced; over-credulous, over confident, over trustful; infatuated,
superstitious; confiding &c (believing) 484.
Phr. the wish the father to the thought; credo quia impossibile [Lat.] [Tertullian]; all is
not gold that glitters; no es oro todo lo que reluce [Sp.]; omne ignotum pro magnifico
[Lat.].
487. Incredulity -- N. incredulousness † , incredulity; skepticism, pyrrhonism † ; want of
faith &c (irreligion) 989 [Obs.].
suspiciousness &c adj.; scrupulosity; suspicion &c (unbelief) 485.
mistrust, cynicism.