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Credulous vs Disbelieving - What's the difference?

credulous | disbelieving |

As adjectives the difference between credulous and disbelieving

is that credulous is excessively ready to believe things; gullible while disbelieving is refusing to believe; skeptical or incredulous.

As a verb disbelieving is

present participle of lang=en.

credulous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Excessively ready to believe things; gullible.
  • (obsolete) Believed too readily.

    • Derived terms

    * credulously * credulousness

    Related terms

    * credulity

    Synonyms

    * naive, unworldly * See also:

    Antonyms

    * incredulous

    References

    * (etymology)

    disbelieving

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • refusing to believe; skeptical or incredulous