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GULLIBLE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Easily tricked because of being too trusting
Example:
gullible tourists taken in by the shell game
Classified under:
Similar:
unwary (not alert to danger or deception)
Derivation:
gullibility (tendency to believe too readily and therefore to be easily deceived)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Naive and easily deceived or tricked
Example:
at that early age she had been gullible and in love
Synonyms:
fleeceable; green; gullible
Classified under:
Similar:
naif; naive (marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience)
Derivation:
gullibility (tendency to believe too readily and therefore to be easily deceived)
