cred-, credit-, creed- +
(Latin: believe, belief, faith, confidence, trust)
discredit
1. Loss or want of credit; impaired reputation; disrepute, reproach; an instance of this.
2. Loss or want of belief or confidence; disbelief, distrust.
3. To show to be unworthy of belief; to take away the credibility of; to destroy confidence in.
4. To injure the credit or reputation of; to bring into discredit, disrepute, or loss of esteem; to disparage, degrade, defame, and slander.
discreditable, discreditably
1. Bringing shame or dishonor to someones good name or reputation.
2. The reverse of creditable; such as to bring discredit; injurious to reputation; disreputable, disgraceful.
discredited
Brought into discredit or disrepute; that which has lost credit.
Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
—Felix Cohen
grant
1. To agree to allow a request, a favor, or a privilege.
2. To acknowledge, often reluctantly, the truth or efficacy of something.
3. To transfer money, property or rights to someone in a legal transaction.
4. A sum of money given by the government or some other organization to fund such things as education or research.BR>
5. Something given to someone as a favor or privilege, or the giving of it; such as a land grant.
6. In law, something transferred from one person to another in a legal transaction, or the making of such a transaction.
7. A legal document recording a transaction in which something is transferred from one person to another.
8. To admit as true what is not proven; to allow; to yield; to concede: "We take it for granted which is supposed to be true."
grantee
Someone to whom something is transferred in a legal transaction; a recipient of a grant.
grantor
1. Someone who makes a grant.
2. Anyone who conveys property or a right in property by deed.
3. An organization, which provides aid in the form of grants, as for education, research, etc.
incredibility
The quality or fact of being incredibile; a thing that cannot be believed; an incredible notion or circumstance.
incredible, incredibleness
1. Not credible; that which cannot be believed; beyond belief.
2. Informally used to mean: unexpectedly or astonishingly large or great; surprising; extraordinarily good, talented, or enjoyable.
incredibly
In an incredible manner or degree, in a way or to an extent that is impossible or very difficult to believe; to an extent that one would not have believed possible; exceedingly, extremely.
incredulity
1. A disbelieving frame of mind; unreadiness or unwillingness to believe (statements, etc.); disbelief.
2. A state or feeling of disbelief.
There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
—Alfred Korzybski
incredulous
1. Unbelieving; not ready to believe; sceptical. Formerly used of religious unbelief, but no longer applicable in that sense.
2. Unable or unwilling to believe something or completely unconvinced by it.
incredulously
In an incredulous manner; with incredulity.
miscreant
1. Originally an infidel, heretic, pagan, or heathen; literally, being of the “wrong belief”.
2. Misbelieving, heretical; unbelieving, infidel.
3. A vile wretch; a villain, a depraved rascal; or a generally malicious and contemptible person.
4. Etymology: from Old French mescreant, "heretical, unbelieving, infidel"; from mes-, "wrongly"; from Latin mis-, "wrong" + creant, creire, "belief, to believe"; from Latin credere, "to believe".
omnicredulity
1. The tendency to believe everything too readily.
2. An over-readiness to believe all things.
3. A disposition to believe everything with weak or even insufficient reasons.
omnicredulous
1. Ready or too easily disposed to believe everything.
2. Overly ready to believe everything.
3. Someone who is credulous when he or she is all too ready to believe everything or everyone.
Cross references of word families that are related directly, or indirectly, to: "faith, trust; faithful, trusting; believe, belief":
dox-;
fid-.