unbeliever
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.34 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who does not believe, particularly in a deity (used by believers to describe people who do not believe in the same deity or deities as themselves).
Example Sentences
- "`Well, I suppose that we must try it,' I said; and the others assented in their various ways - Leo, as though it were the best joke in the world; Job, in respectful disgust; and Mahomed, with an invocation to the Prophet, and a comprehensive curse upon all unbelievers and their ways of thought and travel."
- "I tried to persuade some of the men to come and save you, but they would not do it, saying: ‘Let the unbelievers kill one another if they wish. It is none of our affair, and if we go and interfere with Ali-ben-Ahmed’s plans we shall only stir up a fight with our own people.’"
- "One of the emcees, going for a cheap laugh had said "classical musicians, we all know what they're like," and I heard several voices from the audience reply, "Oh yeah, what are they like?" But the classical concert certainly convinced the unbelievers."