Credulous \Cred"u*lous\ (kr?d"?-l?s; 135), a. [L. credulus, fr.
credere. See Creed.]
1. Apt to believe on slight evidence; easily imposed upon;
unsuspecting. --Landor.
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Eve, our credulous mother. --Milton.
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2. Believed too readily. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
credulous
adj 1: disposed to believe on little evidence; "the gimmick would
convince none but the most credulous" [ant: incredulous]
2: showing a lack of judgment or experience; "so credulous he
believes everything he reads"
WordNet (r) 2.0
86 Moby Thesaurus words for "credulous":
accepting, apish, asinine, batty, befooled, beguiled, believing,
besotted, brainless, buffoonish, childlike, cockeyed, confiding,
crazy, daffy, daft, dazed, dependent, depending, dizzy, doting,
dumb, dupable, easily taken in, easy of belief, fatuitous, fatuous,
flaky, fond, fool, foolheaded, foolish, fuddled, futile, gaga,
goofy, green, guileless, gulled, gullible, idiotic, imbecile,
inane, inclined to believe, inept, inexperienced, infatuated,
innocent, insane, kooky, loony, mad, maudlin, moronic, naive,
nutty, overconfiding, overcredulous, overtrustful, overtrusting,
reliant, relying, sappy, screwy, senseless, sentimental, silly,
simple, stupid, superstitious, thoughtless, trustful, trusting,
trusty, uncritical, undoubting, unquestioning, unskeptical,
unsophisticated, unsuspecting, unsuspicious, unwary, wacky, wet,
without suspicion, witless
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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