INCREDULOUSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does incredulously mean? 

• INCREDULOUSLY (adverb)
  The adverb INCREDULOUSLY has 1 sense:

1. in an incredulous manner

  Familiarity information: INCREDULOUSLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INCREDULOUSLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an incredulous manner

Synonyms:

disbelievingly; incredulously; unbelievingly

Context example:

the woman looked up at her incredulously

Antonym:

credulously (in a credulous manner)

Pertainym:

incredulous (not disposed or willing to believe; unbelieving)

 Context examples 

“It must be a mixed motive, I think,” said Mr. Wickfield, shaking his head and smiling incredulously.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I seemed to stand outside myself and to look at myself incredulously.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Isabella smiled incredulously and talked the rest of the evening to James.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The elder Scott looked incredulously, first at White Fang, then at Dick, and finally at his son.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I smiled incredulously.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The other looked at him incredulously.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

“But don’t you care to escape as well as we?” I asked incredulously. “No,” was his answer. “I intend dying here.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

She shook her head incredulously.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Her host looked at her incredulously.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

"Can't repeat the past?" he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!"

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)