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Adjective gullible has 2 senses
- gullible(s = adj.all) fleeceable, green - naive and easily deceived or tricked; "at that early age she had been gullible and in love" Derived form noun gullibility1
- gullible(s = adj.all) Array - easily tricked because of being too trusting; "gullible tourists taken in by the shell game" Derived form noun gullibility1
OXFORD DICTIONARY
gullible, adj. easily persuaded or deceived, credulous.
Derivative
gullibility n. gullibly adv.
Etymology
GULL(2) + -IBLE
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gullible
artless, befoolable, born yesterday, credulous, cullible, deceivable, deludable, dupable, easy, exploitable, foolable, green, hoaxable, hoodwinkable, humbugable, immature, inexperienced, ingenuous, innocent, naive, persuadable, seduceable, simple, soft, susceptible, unsophisticated, unsuspecting, unsuspicious, unwary, victimizable, wide-eyedROGET THESAURUS
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Credulity
N credulity, credulousness, cullibility, gullibility, gross credulity, infatuation, self delusion, self deception, superstition, one's blind side, bigotry, hyperorthodoxy, misjudgment, credulous person, credulous, gullible, easily deceived, simple, green, soft, childish, silly, stupid, easily convinced, over-credulous, over confident, over trustful, infatuated, superstitious, confiding, the wish the father to the thought, credo quia impossibile, all is not gold that glitters, no es oro todo lo que reluce, omne ignotum pro magnifico.
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