believe
To accept as true, particularly without absolute certainty (i.e., as opposed to knowing).
Example
“If you believe the numbers, you'll agree we need change.”
Other meanings
To accept that someone is telling the truth.
“Why did I ever believe you?”
To have been persuaded to accept the factuality of something despite a lack of sufficient evidence therefore.
Related words
- unbelieved
- forebelieve
- misbelieve
- rebelieve
- unbelieve
- believingly
- nonbelieving
- believable
- believability
- I'll believe it when I see it
- believing is seeing
- believer
Example sentences
Word history
From Old English "belīefan" (to believe).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “believe” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.