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GULLIBLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does gullible mean?
• GULLIBLE (adjective)
The adjective GULLIBLE has 2 senses:
1. naive and easily deceived or tricked
2. easily tricked because of being too trusting
Familiarity information: GULLIBLE used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Naive and easily deceived or tricked
Synonyms:
fleeceable; green; gullible
Context example:
at that early age she had been gullible and in love
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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Easily tricked because of being too trusting
Context example:
gullible tourists taken in by the shell game
Similar:
unwary (not alert to danger or deception)
Derivation:
gullibility (tendency to believe too readily and therefore to be easily deceived)
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