(Noun) Being unable or unwilling to believe something, or a feeling of shock or surprise upon exposure to such a circumstance.
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Alternate Noun: Incredulousness
Adjective: Incredulous
Wife: βIβm pregnant.β
Husband: *contorts facial expression into one of obvious incredulity*
Husband: βWe havenβt had sex in six months!β
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unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true
he was not incredulous
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of a nature that does not believe or is prone to be skeptical
Due to his falling off of 17 roofs in the last three days while wearing St. Jamesmobileβs Elastic Scissor Shoes, Elizabeth was incredulous towards the rhetoric of St. Jamesmobileβs CEO Fred Peabody.
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The look on an unmarried man's face when a woman he's been sleeping with comes up to him and says, "I'm having your baby."
The look on John's face was incredulous when the woman he had been having an affair with told him that she was having his child.
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An incredulous person would not believe this definition.
person 1: "Don't walk off the cliff you will fall and die."
incredulous person: "I don't believe you"
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