Synonyms of believes

believes

verb

present tense third-person singular of believe

1

as in accepts

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• accepts
• understands
• takes
• trusts
• buys
• swallows
• credits
• assumes
• presumes
• accounts
• supposes
• sets store by
• concludes
• infers
• deduces
• accredits

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• rejects
• disbelieves
• discredits
• suspects
• doubts
• distrusts
• questions
• challenges
• mistrusts
• disputes
• misdoubts

2

as in thinks

to have as an opinion

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• thinks
• considers
• imagines
• feels
• deems
• figures
• supposes
• guesses
• conceives
• perceives
• judges
• assumes
• holds
• reckons
• accepts
• allows
• esteems
• regards
• relies
• presumes
• depends
• presupposes
• trusts
• concludes
• views
• surmises
• infers
• deduces

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• suspects
• doubts
• distrusts
• rejects
• questions
• mistrusts
• discredits
• disbelieves

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of believes

Max Fondren, president of the ICEBreakers student group, said the organization believes the university's partnership with immigration authorities could negatively affect students. — Ivan Taylor, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2026

Difficult People began during the Obama era, a context Klausner believes matters when people call the series prophetic. — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 21 Aug. 2026

Carcache believes similar research could also reveal more about plants closer to home. — Denise Hruby, Miami Herald, 21 Aug. 2026

That’s a sentiment shared by Akshay Ruparelia, co-founder of startup Brdge, who believes the most valuable thing a sharp person can do with spare capacity is think, and that this is a resource companies should be desperate for. — Barnaby Lashbrooke, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026

Shinkafi believes a combination of tax holidays, full repatriation of earnings and a non-insistence on part ownership in mining projects makes Nigeria’s mining laws friendly to investors. — Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 21 Aug. 2026

The breakouts need to be better and Sturm believes that’s tied to what’s going on at the other end of the ice. — Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 21 Aug. 2026

Jelk believes that your wedding day fragrance should be based on a feeling, not a formula. — Arden Fanning Andrews, Vogue, 21 Aug. 2026

Indeed, the team behind this research believes this hum of spacetime ripples could help explain how supermassive black holes grew so rapidly before the universe was even a billion years old. — Robert Lea, Space.com, 21 Aug. 2026