incredulous – unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true

adjective  in·cred·u·lous  \ (ˌ)in-ˈkre-jə-ləs , -dyə-ləs \

I came across this word in Colson’s Whitehead article called ” City Limits”. My first assumption when I saw the word was that its prefix “in” meant “not”. When I researched the definition I saw that I was on the right track. Now for the credulous part, It had something to do with how ” credible” something was. Initially I thought that my second assumption was incorrect however that was wrong. The word incredulous (in my opinion) can be related to the word credible, seeing to it that incredulous meant unwilling to accept and credible meant true, Incredible simply means to see or act like a credible truth is oblivious or not true.