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    [Adjective]  | "in*cred*u*lous" | \ (ˌ)in-ˈkre-jə-ləs \


    1: unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true : not credulous : skeptical

    2: expressing incredulity

    3: incredible

    Origin: circa 1562 ;

     Latin incredulus, from in- + credulus credulous;

    [Adjective]  | "incredulous" 


    1: inclined to doubt or question claims;


      * e.g., " ... incredulous by nature, I'm of course very suspicious of anyone who claims to be able to communicate with the dead "




    2: too extraordinary or improbable to believe;


      * e.g., " ... an incredulous account of alien abduction that the tabloids had a field day with "




     [ "incredulous" ]

    1: skeptical, questioning

     [ "incredulous" ]

    1: unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true

      * e.g.,  ... he was not incredulous 

     [ "incredulous" ]

    1: of a nature that does not believe or is prone to be skeptical

      * e.g.,  ... Due to his falling off of 17 roofs in the last three days while wearing St. Jamesmobile’s Elastic Scissor Shoes, Elizabeth was incredulous towards the rhetoric of St. Jamesmobile’s CEO Fred Peabody. 

     [ "incredulous" ]

    1: An incredulous person would not believe this definition.

      * e.g.,  ... person 1: "Don't walk off the cliff you will fall and die." 

     [ "incredulous" ]

    1: a combination of the words incredible and ridicuolous. contains both definitions

      * e.g.,  ... "that film was incrdulous" 

     [ "incredulous" ]

    1: A combination of incredible and fabulous, usually used in an insulting or sarcasting manner.

      * e.g.,  ... "Dude, that idea is incredulous." 

     [ "incredulity" ]

    1: (Noun) Being unable or unwilling to believe something, or a feeling of shock or surprise upon exposure to such a circumstance. Other forms:

      * e.g.,  ... Wife: “I’m pregnant.” 

     [ "incredulity" ]

    2: Alternate Noun: Incredulousness

      * e.g.,  ... Husband: *contorts facial expression into one of obvious incredulity* 

     [ "incredulity" ]

    3: Adjective: Incredulous

      * e.g.,  ... Husband: “We haven’t had sex in six months!” 

     [ "Incredulous" ]

    1: The look on an unmarried man's face when a woman he's been sleeping with comes up to him and says, "I'm having your baby."

      * e.g.,  ... The look on John's face was incredulous when the woman he had been having an affair with told him that she was having his child. 

     [ "incredulously" ]

    1: A dumb idiot bullshit term

      * e.g.,  ... You are incredulously stupid 

     [ "dodge the incredulity" ]

    1: phrase used to address someone who is expressing extreme skepticism or disbelief at a story, fact or anecdote you have told them.

      * e.g.,  ... You really don't believe Melissa slept with his brother? Dodge the incredulity, bub! 

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