discredulous
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Unable or unwilling to believe something; incredulous.
Example Sentences
- "My discredulous friend may stare, but let him take this paper for his guide, and go to Lurgan Street, and he will see one of four great ragged schools."
- "Their task would be to try to figure out what the triggers were, what meds worked to abort the migraine (with a programed probability of working each specific time, so nothing was an absolute bet.) The doctors they would see would be told to be discredulous and pedantic."
- "To what degree of explanation does a bus driver have to go when he says 'bus is full'?He is man who has duty of controlling passenger numbers and he has announced his decision. He is not required at ever^([sic]) stop to parade the passengers for counting by the discredulous or produce all the Acts and Regulations that govern the passenger load of his bus."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more discredulous (comparative)
most discredulous (superlative)