The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unbelieving \Un`be*liev"ing\, a.
Not believing; incredulous; doubting; distrusting; skeptical.
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. [1913 Webster] -- Un`be*liev"ing*ly, adv. -- -- Un`be*liev"ing*ness, n.
Wiktionary
a. That does not believe; incredulous, skeptical
WordNet
adj. rejecting any belief in gods [syn: atheistic, atheistical]
holding that only material phenomena can be known and knowledge of spiritual matters or ultimate causes is impossible [syn: nescient]
denying or questioning the tenets of especially a religion; "a skeptical approach to the nature of miracles" [syn: disbelieving, skeptical, sceptical]
Usage examples of "unbelieving".
I got new friends and acquaintances, and all were of the doubting, unbelieving class.
I wished first to see their temples and their mode of worship, before I decided whether I would be an unbelieving believer or a believing unbeliever.
I wished, as I had the honor to say to you, to witness a religious service in the great mosque at Constantinople, and by my prayers, supported by a handful of gold pieces, I succeeded in convincing the Turk, who had the care of the key to the superb Sophia, that it was not an unpardonable sin to allow an unbelieving Christian to witness the holy worship of an unbelieving Mussulman.
I squeezed its haft in the proper way, and I felt the wide blades jar apart, and I knew the inner, slim, third blade had leapt out from between them, for my foe bulged his eyes in unbelieving surprise.
His overseer was about as unbelieving as the negroes, and declared he could beat the guano by expending the same value in manure upon a given quantity of surface.