Bemused vs Incredulous - What's the difference?
bemused | incredulous |
Skeptical, disbelieving, or unable to believe.
* 1918 ,
Expressing or indicative of incredulity.
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* 1601 , William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night , III.4:
* 1984 , , opinion in People v Terrell'', 459 N.E.2d 1337,
As adjectives the difference between bemused and incredulous
is that bemused is deeply thoughtful; preoccupied while incredulous is skeptical, disbelieving, or unable to believe.As a verb bemused
is (bemuse).incredulous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Xodar listened in incredulous astonishment to my narration of the events which had transpired within the arena at the rites of Issus.
- Reactions at Sun's campus, an hour's drive from San Francisco, ranged from the fearful to the incredulous .
- Why euery thing adheres togither, that no dramme of a scruple, no scruple of a scruple, no obstacle, no incredulous or vnsafe circumstance [...].
]quoted in David C. Brody, James R. Acker, and Wayne A. Logan, ''Criminal Law ,[http://books.google.com/books?id=2ipUSeStAzQC Jones & Bartlett Publishers (2001), ISBN 0-8342-1083-5, page 564,
- Faced with these facts, we find it incredulous that [the] defendant had any intent other than the armed robbery of the service station.