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gul·li·ble

 (gŭl′ə-bəl)
adj.
Easily deceived or duped.

[From gull.]

gul′li·bil′i·ty n.
gul′li·bly adv.
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gullible

(ˈɡʌləbəl)
adj
easily taken in or tricked
ˌgulliˈbility n
ˈgullibly adv
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gul•li•ble

(ˈgʌl ə bəl)

adj.
easily deceived or cheated; naive; credulous.
Sometimes, gul′la•ble.
[1815–25; gull2 + -ible]
gul`li•bil′i•ty, n.
gul′li•bly, adv.
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gullible

- A derivative of archaic gull, "dupe" or "simpleton."
See also related terms for simpleton.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.gullible - naive and easily deceived or tricked; "at that early age she had been gullible and in love"
naif, naive - marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience; "a teenager's naive ignorance of life"; "the naive assumption that things can only get better"; "this naive simple creature with wide friendly eyes so eager to believe appearances"
2.gullible - easily tricked because of being too trusting; "gullible tourists taken in by the shell game"
unwary - not alert to danger or deception; "the shrieks of unwary animals taken by surprise"; "some thieves prey especially on unwary travelers"; "seduce the unwary reader into easy acquiescence"- O.J.Campbell
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gullible

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

gullible

adjective
Easily imposed on or tricked:
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Translations
سَهْل الإنْخِداع، ساذِج
důvěřivýnaivní
godtroende
trúgjarn
patiklumas
lētticīgs
ľahkoverný
aptalkolay aldanır

gullible

[ˈgʌlɪbl] ADJcrédulo, simplón
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

gullible

[ˈgʌləbəl] adjcrédule
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

gullible

adj, gullibly
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

gullible

[ˈgʌlɪbl] adjcredulone/a, sempliciotto/a
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

gullible

(ˈgaləbl) adjective
easily tricked or fooled. He is so gullible that he believes everything you tell him.
ˌgulliˈbility noun
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We have gone through different comments by really unhappy Kenyans about the issue.There are those establishment figures so servile that they can even gullibly swallow the excrement of those they consider their 'leaders'.
He began reclaiming some of the industrial enterprises so gullibly surrendered after the fall of Communism, buying back 21% of the energy giant MOL from Russia in 2011.
Ressa could not muster public support and their blind followers instead resort to international groups who are clueless of the real situation of the Philippines and gullibly lend their names to such unworthy causes," he added.
According to him, Filipinos are no longer fooled by 'political dramas 'concocted' by the administration's critics who then resort to international groups who are 'clueless' of the real situation in the country and 'gullibly' lend their names to 'such unworthy cases.'
Unfortunately, a Unesco listing which gives it a tentative status as a heritage site, gullibly takes up the Pakistani claim.
But more importantly, the certificate serves as a costly lesson to stakeholders who gullibly succumb to the spells ofValley startup founders without performing their due diligence (Theranos investors collectively lost nearly $1 billion).
The problem is that the media gullibly swallowed it hook, line and sinker and misrepresented a survey of 140 cities as a survey of the world's millions of cities.This hasty generalization is logically fallacious and calls to question the failure of rigour among the gatekeepers who are responsible for interrogating information disseminated by a company in a bid to sell its product before uploading for public consumption.
Modern Muslim scholars will be doing a great disservice to Islam, he argues, if they gullibly apply elements of the classical fiqh literature without first assessing them with the divine sources of Islamic law.
But when it gets there, it sees that there are many, many words present: not just "honeycomb" but "gullibly" and "goutweed" and others.
But it highlights the demand for rooms that has apparently led some landlords to believe they can dress up the most ridiculous spaces as being available to let - and some desperately gullible or gullibly desperate renter will put down a deposit.
They are almost universally considered politicians of mediocre intellect who believe all sorts of fairytales, collected spurious anecdotes, myths and gullibly accepted partisan versions of human rights.