Definition of believes

"believes" in the verb sense

1. believe

accept as true take to be true

"I believed his report"

"We didn't believe his stories from the War"

"She believes in spirits"

2. think, believe, consider, conceive

judge or regard look upon judge

"I think he is very smart"

"I believe her to be very smart"

"I think that he is her boyfriend"

"The racist conceives such people to be inferior"

3. believe, trust

be confident about something

"I believe that he will come back from the war"

4. believe

follow a credo have a faith be a believer

"When you hear his sermons, you will be able to believe, too"

5. believe

credit with veracity

"You cannot believe this man"

"Should we believe a publication like the National Enquirer?"

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Quotations for believes

He who loves, believes. [ Italian Proverb ]

He who knows most believes the least. [ Buckle ]

By night an atheist half believes a God. [ Young ]

What frenzy dictates, jealousy believes. [ Gay ]

No young man believes he shall ever die. [ John Hazlitt ]

'Tis with our judgments as our watches: none
Go just alike, yet each believes his own. [ Alexander Pope ]

Faith creates the virtues in which it believes. [ Mme. de Sevigne ]

Man usually believes, if only words he hears.
That also with them goes material for thinking. [ Goethe ]

Ignorance shuts its eyes and believes it is right. [ Punch ]

He whose belly is full believes not him whose is empty. [ Proverb ]

A man guilty of poverty easily believes himself suspected. [ Johnson ]

Mothers are the only goddesses in whom the whole world believes.

A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]

He that believes all, misseth; he that believeth nothing, hits not. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted. [ Auerbach ]

Seeing is believing (he who sees with the eye believes with the heart). [ Italian Proverb ]

No man whatever believes, or can believe, exactly what his grandfather believed. [ Carlyle ]

A man must be excessively stupid, as well as uncharitable, who believes there is no virtue but on his own side. [ Addison ]

He who believes in goodness has the essence of all faith. He is a man of cheerful yesterdays and confident tomorrows. [ J. F. Clarke ]

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another. [ Carlyle ]

O future ages, what will be your fate? Glory, like a shadow, has returned to heaven; Love no longer exists; life is devastated; and man, left alone, believes but in Death. [ A. de Musset ]

What consoles one nowadays is not repentance, but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date, and beside, if a woman really repents, she has to go to a bad dressmaker, otherwise no one believes in her. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]

A corrupted and weakened community breaks down in immense catastrophes; the iron harrow of revolutions crushes men like the clods of the field; but, in the blood-stained furrows germinates a new generation, and the soul aggrieved, believes again. [ Guizot ]

It unfortunately happens that no man believes that he is likely to die soon. So every one is much disposed to defer the consideration of what ought to be done on the supposition of such an emergency; and while nothing is so uncertain as human life, so nothing is so certain as our assurance that we shall survive most of our neighbors. [ Aughey ]

believes in Scrabble®

The word believes is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 13

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters believes:

BELIEVES
(126)
BELIEVES
(126)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

believe

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word believes

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In believes

BELIEVES
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believes in Words With Friends™

The word believes is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 16

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters believes:

BELIEVE
(116 = 81 + 35)
BELIEVE
(116 = 81 + 35)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

believe

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word believes

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BELIEVE
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8 letter words in believes (1 word)

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Word Growth involving believes

Shorter words in believes

be belie believe

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lie belie believe

eve believe

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Longer words containing believes

disbelieves

misbelieves