unbelief

Questions about unbelief

What does unbelief mean?

unbelief means "a rejection of belief".

How many syllables are in unbelief?

unbelief has 3 syllables and divides as un-be-lief under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for unbelief?

Close synonyms include disbelief. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of unbelief?

The recorded antonyms are belief.

Is unbelief a common word?

unbelief is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.