believe

v

1. maintain, assert, opine, hold, dare say; consider, regard, conceive, acknowledge, recognize; judge, deem, conclude, deduce, infer, think; posit, postulate, hypothesize, theorize.

2. understand, comprehend, know, realize, get through one's head; perceive, apprehend, feel, intuit, divine; guess, conjecture, surmise, suspect, fancy, imagine; assume, suppose, Archaic. trow, presuppose, presume.

3. trust, have faith in, confide in, put confidence in, Inf. take or put stock in, credit; accept, take it, Inf. buy, Inf. swallow, Sl. fall for; hope, expect.

4. believe in

a. be persuaded of, be convinced, be sure of, swear by, take [s.o.] at his word.b. put faith in, pin one's faith on, repose in, build on, anchor on; count on, rely on, depend on, calculate on, lean on, cling to; be confident of, have confidence, be certain of, be assured of, be satisfied.