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# unbelieving

«unbelieving» in Mova's school dictionary: **not believing; refusing to accept what other people say…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

Unbelieving means not believing; refusing to accept what other people say is true. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unbelieving/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, a doubter who will not accept a wonder or a story until he sees it

### examples

- The old man gave an unbelieving shake of his head. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unbelieving/#x1)
- "Do you believe me now?" asked the voice to the unbelieving fisherman. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unbelieving/#x2)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «unbelieving» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unbelieving/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.