Meanings
plural disbelievers
- One who disbelieves; one who does not believe.
1 more example
How was it possible that I, a rational man, not unacquainted with the leading scientific facts of our history, and hitherto an absolute and utter disbeliever in all the hocus-pocus which in Europe goes by the name of the supernatural, could believe that I had within the last few minutes been engaged in conversation with a woman two thousand and odd years old?
1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
From disbelieve + -er or dis- + believer.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Arabic كَافِر, كَافِرَة
- كَافِر (kāfir)one who does not believe
- كَافِرَة (kāfira)one who does not believe
Italian miscredente
- miscredenteone who does not believe
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