Word Meanings - BELIEVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To exercise belief in; to credit upon the authority or testimony of another; to be persuaded of the truth of, upon evidence furnished by reasons, arguments, and deductions of the mind, or by circumstances other than personal knowledge; to regard

Additional info about word: BELIEVE

To exercise belief in; to credit upon the authority or testimony of another; to be persuaded of the truth of, upon evidence furnished by reasons, arguments, and deductions of the mind, or by circumstances other than personal knowledge; to regard or accept as true; to place confidence in; to think; to consider; as, to believe a person, a statement, or a doctrine. Our conqueror . Milton. King Agrippa, believest thou the prophets Acts xxvi. Often followed by a dependent clause. I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. Acts viii. 37. Syn. -- See Expect. (more info) akin to D. gelooven, OHG. gilouban, G. glauben, OS. gil, Goth.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BELIEVE)

• Accredit
• Believe
• trust
• entrust
• delegate
• depute
• commission
• authorize
• Conceive
• Imagine
• apprehend
• believe
• suppose
• design
• think
• understand
• Confide
• Trust
• lean
• hope
• depend
• rely
• Deem
• Judge
• estimate
• consider
• conceive
• Esteem
• Price
• value
• deem
• judge
• regard
• affect
• appreciate
• revere
• honor
• respect
• admire
• venerate
• prize
• love
• like

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of BELIEVE)

• Miss
• overlook
• disregard
• despise
• dislike
• contemn
• hate
• loathe
• misconsider
• misconceive
• misestimate
• misjudge
• Overlook
• dishonor
• Miscompute
• disesteem
• vilipend
• underrate
• undervalue
• underestimate
• cheapen
• vilify

Related words: (words related to BELIEVE)

• THINKING
  Having the faculty of thought; cogitative; capable of a regular train of ideas; as, man is a thinking being. -- Think"ing*ly, adv.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• CONFIDER
  One who confides.
• MISJUDGE
  To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.
• CONFIDENCE
  1. The act of confiding, trusting, or putting faith in; trust; reliance; belief; -- formerly followed by of, now commonly by in. Society is built upon trust, and trust upon confidence of one another's integrity. South. A cheerful confidence in
• DESIGN
  drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace
• ADMIRED
  1. Regarded with wonder and delight; highly prized; as, an admired poem. 2. Wonderful; also, admirable. "Admired disorder." " Admired Miranda." Shak.
• TRUSTEE
  A person to whom property is legally committed in trust, to be applied either for the benefit of specified individuals, or for public uses; one who is intrusted with property for the benefit of another; also, a person in whose hands the effects
• TRUSTY
  1. Admitting of being safely trusted; justly deserving confidence; fit to be confided in; trustworthy; reliable. Your trusty and most valiant servitor. Shak. 2. Hence, not liable to fail; strong; firm. His trusty sword he called to his
• HONORABLE
  1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• AFFECTATIONIST
  One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall.
• CONSIDERINGLY
  With consideration or deliberation.
• MISCOMPUTE
  To compute erroneously. Sir T. Browne.
• APPRECIATE
  a price, appraise; ad + pretiare to prize, pretium price. Cf. 1. To set a price or value on; to estimate justly; to value. To appreciate the motives of their enemies. Gibbon. 3. To raise the value of; to increase the market price of; -- opposed
• PRICE
  to buy, OI. renim I sell. Cf. Appreciate, Depreciate, Interpret, 1. The sum or amount of money at which a thing is valued, or the value which a seller sets on his goods in market; that for which something is bought or sold, or offered for sale;
• REVERENTIALLY
  In a reverential manner.
• ESTEEM
  1. To set a value on; to appreciate the worth of; to estimate; to value; to reckon. Then he forsook God, which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. Deut. xxxii. 15. Thou shouldst esteem his censure and authority to be of
• TRUST COMPANY
  Any corporation formed for the purpose of acting as trustee. Such companies usually do more or less of a banking business.
• CONFIDENT
  See DRYDEN
• SELF-TRUST
  Faith in one's self; self-reliance.
• DISRESPECTABILITY
  Want of respectability. Thackeray.
• OVERAFFECT
  To affect or care for unduly. Milton.
• MISAFFECT
  To dislike.
• UNCONSIDERED
  Not considered or attended to; not regarded; inconsiderable; trifling. A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. Shak.
• PREJUDGE
  To judge before hearing, or before full and sufficient examination; to decide or sentence by anticipation; to condemn beforehand. The committee of council hath prejudged the whole case, by calling the united sense of both houses of Parliament" a
• MISTHINK
  To think wrongly. "Adam misthought of her." Milton.