Cred vs Incredible - What's the difference?
cred | incredible |
(urban, slang) Credibility.
* 2002 , Popular Science (volume 261, number 5, November 2002, page 48)
(computing, informal, usually, in the plural) credential
Too implausible to be credible; beyond belief; unbelievable.
* 1980 September 16, (w), quoted in William A. Schwartz et al., The Nuclear Seduction: Why the Arms Race Doesn’t Matter—And What Does , University of California Press (1990, 1993), ISBN 0-520-06134-9,
* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, page 796:
Amazing; astonishing; awe-inspiring.
Marvelous; profoundly affecting; wonderful.
As a noun cred
is credibility.As an adjective incredible is
too implausible to be credible; beyond belief; unbelievable.cred
English
Noun
(en noun)- After listening to that sheer pile of bull mess he tried to tell me yesterday, I've decided he's got precisely zero cred as far as I'm concerned.
- Don't worry about losing geek cred here: In addition to its usual functions, the remote will be able to call up a customizable Command menu that executes any program or script you have the temerity to put in its configuration file.
- 1998', "Lou Langholtz", ''DCE programming: using login '''creds to auth server?'' (on newsgroup ''comp.soft-sys.dce )
Derived terms
* street credAnagrams
* * ----incredible
English
Adjective
(en adjective)page 29:
- I get lost in what is credible and not credible. This whole thing gets so incredible when you consider wiping out whole nations, it is difficult to establish credibility.
- He therefore found revealed religion incredible in a literal sense, and, as Bayle had done before him, he radically separated morality from the practice of organized religion.
- He was so wrapped up in watching the incredible special effects that he couldn't keep track of the story.
- I had such an incredible slice of pizza last night that I simply can't think about anything else.