believe

Verb

• credit with veracity
  • You cannot believe this man
    
  • Should we believe a publication like the National Enquirer?
    

• follow a credo; have a faith; be a believer
  • When you hear his sermons, you will be able to believe, too
    

• be confident about something
  • I believe that he will come back from the war
    

• judge or regard; look upon; judge
  • I think he is very smart
    
  • I believe her to be very smart
    
  • I think that he is her boyfriend
    
  • The racist conceives such people to be inferior
    

• accept as true; take to be true
  • I believed his report
    
  • We didn't believe his stories from the War
    
  • She believes in spirits
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  trust , think , consider , conceive
• Antonyms: 
  disbelieve , discredit