Usually means: Easily believes things; lacks skepticism.
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  1. gullible: Merriam-Webster
  2. gullible: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gullible: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gullible: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gullible: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gullible, gullible: Wordnik
  7. gullible: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. gullible: Wiktionary
  9. gullible: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gullible: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gullible: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Gullible, gullible: Dictionary.com
  13. gullible: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. gullible: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Gullible: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Gullible: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. gullible: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. gullible: Rhymezone
  19. gullible: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. gullible: FreeDictionary.org
  21. gullible: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. Gullible: The Word Detective
  23. gullible: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. gullible: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. gullible: Legal dictionary

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  1. gullible: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (gullible)

▸ adjective:  Easily deceived or duped; naive, easily cheated or fooled.
▸ noun:  A gullible person; someone easily fooled or tricked.

Similar:
fleeceable, naif, naive, unwary, green, gullable, cullible, gullish, weak-minded, soft-minded, more...

Opposite:
skeptical, pessimistic, cynical, doubtful, wary

Types:
naive, credulous, unsuspecting, trusting, easily fooled, susceptible, uncritical, unskeptical, ingenuous, more...

Phrases:
gullible target of a prank, innocent and gullible, gullible person, gullible sorts, opposite of gullible, more...


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Similar:
fleeceable, naif, naive, unwary, green, gullable, cullible, gullish, weak-minded, soft-minded, more...

Opposite:
skeptical, pessimistic, cynical, doubtful, wary

Types:
naive, credulous, unsuspecting, trusting, easily fooled, susceptible, uncritical, unskeptical, ingenuous, more...

Phrases:
gullible target of a prank, innocent and gullible, gullible person, gullible sorts, opposite of gullible, not gullible, someone who is dumb and gullible, people who are gullible, be gullible, gullible one, more...



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