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 The tanker is believed to have carried approximately 9,000 gallons of gasoline during the crash. —

Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Apr. 2026 The researchers believed that superior hardware was being reserved for profit-generating activities. —

Ronan Farrow, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026 Amnesty International says China is the world's lead executioner, believed to sentence and put to death thousands of people annually. —

ABC News, 5 Apr. 2026 Despite having their best player (Yaxel Lendeborg) limited by injury, the Wolverines laid waste to the team everyone believed to be their equal. —

Jon Wilner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2026 Fort Worth Fire said the truck is believed to have carried about 9,000 gallons of fuel at the time. —

Matthew Ablon, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2026 The caller also told authorities that both male suspects fled on foot and are believed to have left the area in a vehicle. —

Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 5 Apr. 2026 The focus was narrow, but thoughtfully executed; two weeks in, the museum even acquired a work that was long believed a false copy, but which was reattributed to Murillo by an art historian, causing a flurry of international headlines. —

Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Mar. 2026 Unlike solids, which will stretch and eventually snap, liquids have never been believed to have a breaking point. —

Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 29 Mar. 2026

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Fishback had referred to Donalds, his opponent in the Republican primary, who is Black, as a slave because Donalds accepted money from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.

— Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
Submissions are being accepted in three categories, from students in grades K-8, high school students, and college and trade school students.

— Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 5 Apr. 2026