different between creed vs incredible

English

Etymology

From Old English creda, crede, credo, from Latin cr?d? (“I believe”), from Proto-Italic *krezd?, from Proto-Indo-European *?red d?eh?- (“to place one's heart, i.e., to trust, believe”), a compound phrase of the oblique case form of *??r (“heart”). Creed is cognate with Old Irish cretim (“to believe”), Sanskrit ?????????? (?ráddadh?ti, “to have faith or faithfulness, to have belief or confidence, believe”). Doublet of shraddha.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k?i?d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /k?id/
• Rhymes: -i?d

Noun

creed (plural creeds)

1. That which is believed; accepted doctrine, especially religious doctrine; a particular set of beliefs; any summary of principles or opinions professed or adhered to.
2. (specifically, religion) A reading or statement of belief that summarizes the faith it represents; a confession of faith for public use, especially one which is brief and comprehensive.
3. (rare) The fact of believing; belief, faith.

Hyponyms

• Apostles' Creed
• Athanasian Creed
• Nicene Creed

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Verb

creed (third-person singular simple present creeds, present participle creeding, simple past and past participle creeded)

1. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete, only survives in "creeded") To believe; to credit.
2. (intransitive) To provide with a creed.

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References

• creed in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• creed in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Further reading

• creed on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• creed (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• ceder, cered, rec'ed

Spanish

Verb

creed

1. (Spain) Informal second-person plural (vosotros or vosotras) affirmative imperative form of creer.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin incr?dibilis (“that cannot be believed”), from in- (“not”) + cr?dibilis (“worthy of belief”), from cr?d? (“believe”).

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: ?ngkr?'d?b?l, IPA^(key): /???k??d?b?l/, [????k??????b??], [????k??????b??]
• (UK) IPA^(key): /???k??d?b?l/
• Rhymes: -?d?b?l

Adjective

incredible (comparative more incredible, superlative most incredible)

1. (literally) Too implausible to be credible; beyond belief; unbelievable. [from 15th c.]
   • 1980 September 16, Senator John Glenn, quoted in William A. Schwartz et al., The Nuclear Seduction: Why the Arms Race Doesn’t Matter—And What Does, University of California Press (1990, 1993), ?ISBN, page 29:

     I get lost in what is credible and not credible. This whole thing gets so incredible when you consider wiping out whole nations, it is difficult to establish credibility.

   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, page 796:

     He therefore found revealed religion incredible in a literal sense, and, as Bayle had done before him, he radically separated morality from the practice of organized religion.

2. (figuratively) Amazing; astonishing; awe-inspiring.

3. (figuratively) Marvellous; profoundly affecting; wonderful.

Synonyms

• unbelievable

Antonyms

• credible

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