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GULLIBLE

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 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Easily tricked because of being too trustingplay

Example:

gullible tourists taken in by the shell game

Classified under:

Adjectives

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 trickedplay

Example:

at that early age she had been gullible and in love

Synonyms:

fleeceable; green; gullible

Classified under:

Adjectives

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)

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