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unbelief

UK/ʌnbɪˈliːf/

unbelief noun: an absence (or rejection) of belief, especially religious belief.

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Noun

unbelief (usually uncountable, plural unbeliefs)

  1. (usually) An absence (or rejection) of belief, especially religious belief.
    • And he coulde there ſhewe no myracles butt leyd his hondꝭ apon a feawe ſicke foolke ãd healed thẽ. And he merveyled at their vnbelefe.1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Mark vj:[5–6], folio lj, recto
    • On hands and knees he looked at the empty siding and up at the sunfilled sky with unbelief and despair.1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage, published 1993, page 35

unbelief meaning in Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

unbelief in Urdu

عدم ایمان, بےاعتمادی, الحاد, کفر

unbelief in Malayalam

non-belief, atheism, agnosticism
വിശ്വാസമില്ലായ്മ, ദെെവവിശ്വാസമില്ലായ്മ, ലോകായതം, പാഷണ്ഡം, ലോകായതദർശനം, മതവിശ്വാസമില്ലായ്മ

unbelief in Kannada

ಅಪನಂಬುಗೆ, ಅಪನಂಬಿಕೆ, ಅಪನಂಬಿಗೆ

Forms of unbelief

pluralunbeliefs

Origin of unbelief

From Middle English unbilefe, unbileve, equivalent to un- + belief.

Questions about unbelief

What does unbelief mean?
Unbelief means an absence (or rejection) of belief, especially religious belief.
What is unbelief in Urdu?
Unbelief in Urdu is عدم ایمان, بےاعتمادی, الحاد. See Unbelief meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is unbelief?
Unbelief is a noun.
How do you pronounce unbelief?
Unbelief is pronounced /ʌnbɪˈliːf/ (UK).
What is the plural of unbelief?
The plural of unbelief is unbeliefs.

Words near unbelief in the dictionary

  1. unbelated
  2. unbelayed
  3. unbeleaguered
  4. unbeleivable
  5. unbelied
  6. unbelief
  7. unbeliefs
  8. unbelievability
  9. unbelievable
  10. unbelievablely
  11. unbelievableness

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: unbelief (page history and authors); unbelief (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unbelief (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); unbelief (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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