BELIEVED Synonyms: 48 Similar and Opposite Words

believed

verb

past tense of believe

as in accepted

to regard as right or true only the most naive car buyer would have believed the salesman's claim that the dealership was actually losing money on the deal

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as in thought

to have as an opinion despite the horrors she witnessed and endured, Anne Frank steadfastly believed that "people are really good at heart"

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Recent Examples of believed Fixes for what are believed to be uncommonly severe vulnerabilities are scheduled to drop in a little more than 12 hours for PHP, a programming language that powers websites and Web applications everywhere. — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 21 Oct. 2026 Mustapha initially believed the film would be driven by its ideas about masculinity, only to discover in the edit that their friendship had become its emotional throughline. — Essie Assibu, Variety, 20 Oct. 2026 Since April 2023, over 400 bodies have been exhumed from shallow graves believed to be linked to Mackenzie’s doomsday cult. — Latoya Gayle, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2026 Police say it's believed the teenagers were coming from Lawrence and heading north toward Salem, New Hampshire. — Neal Riley, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2026 The man was taken to a hospital with injuries police believed to be not life-threatening. — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 20 Oct. 2026 The owner was believed to be a magistrate or a freedman of the imperial household. — ABC News, 20 Oct. 2026 In a cafe in Mexico City once in the mid-Fifties, Pan spurred Rivera into a debate that Pan believed to have led Rivera to change the most controversial element in one of his most scandalous works. — David Hajdu, Vanity Fair, 20 Oct. 2026 This is believed to be the second hospitalization for Leo, who is known to be sporty and in good shape, with weekly tennis games and swimming. — Arkansas Online, 14 Oct. 2026

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Harris accepted, then asked to co-write the screenplay despite never having tackled a feature script.

— Davide Abbatescianni, Variety, 16 Oct. 2026
Araiza had already punted, but the Raiders accepted the penalty and pushed the Chiefs back into a fourth-and-9.

— Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of accepted

Verb

That kind of visibility could introduce regenerative agriculture to sports fans who’ve never thought much about where their chicken comes from.

— Ryan Brennan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Oct. 2026
On Friday, that thought process took another gigantic step, as those in charge of putting a product on television have all but signed the official paperwork to once again expand the college football playoff.

— Trey Wallace OutKick, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of thought

Verb

These exchanges were consequential, but they could still largely be understood as a series of bilateral transactions focused on Russia’s war.

— Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Foreign Affairs, 16 Oct. 2026
Market analysts and economists note the term premium is poorly understood and subject to interpretation.

— David Goldman, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of understood

Verb

Commonly considered one of the world’s worst invasive species, the green crab has successfully invaded every continent except Antarctica.

— Victoria Malloy, Time, 21 Oct. 2026
However, the probability of serious adverse health effects is still considered low.

— Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of considered

Verb

The Brewers took a 5-4 lead on Garrett Mitchell’s solo home run in the sixth inning and added an insurance run in the ninth on Hamilton’s bomb.

— Greg Rosenstein, NBC news, 16 Oct. 2026
Perhaps the squad took his ball-respecting mantra to its logical extreme, seemingly reluctant to sully it by smashing it into the net, with Chelsea recording the biggest xG underperformance in the Premier League during his brief tenure.

— Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of took

Verb

At that same Screentime event, anyone reading between the lines might have guessed that Sarandos was getting antsy with Netflix’s current low-growth status.

— Matt Donnelly, Variety, 16 Oct. 2026
The security technology ditches the old-school password, which can easily be stolen or guessed.

— Brian Westover, PC Magazine, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of guessed

Verb

The sense that a resume goes straight into a black box isn’t imagined – applications per job have more than doubled since 2022, and the average company now has 56% fewer recruiters to review them.

— Owen Humphries, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2026
Diego ended up being far more involved in the delivery than either of them ever imagined.

— Robbie Owens, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026

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