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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Unbelieving \Un'be*liev"ing\, adjective
1. Not believing; incredulous; doubting; distrusting; skeptical.
2. Believing the thing alleged no to be true; disbelieving; especially, believing that Bible is not a divine revelation, or that Christ was not a divine or a supernatural person. ''Unbelieving Jews.'' --Acts xiv. 2. -- {Un'be*liev"ing*ly}, adverb -- -- {Un'be*liev"ing*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
unbelieving
adjective
1: rejecting any belief in gods [syn: {atheistic}, {atheistical}]
2: holding that only material phenomena can be known and knowledge of spiritual matters or ultimate causes is impossible [syn: {nescient}]
3: denying or questioning the tenets of especially a religion; "a skeptical approach to the nature of miracles" [syn: {disbelieving}, {skeptical}, {sceptical}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
42 Moby Thesaurus words for "unbelieving": atheist, atheistic, creedless, disbelieving, distrustful, doubting, faithless, gentile, goyish, heathen, heretical, incredulous, infidel, infidelic, irreligious, minimifidian, misbelieving, mistrustful, mistrusting, non-Christian, non-Jewish, non-Mohammedan, non-Mormon, non-Moslem, non-Muhammadan, non-Muslim, nonbelieving, nullifidian, pagan, questioning, quizzical, repudiative, sceptical, skeptical, suspicious, unchristian, uncircumcised, unconfident, unconverted, unconvinced, unpersuaded, without faith
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