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English
Etymology
Either gull + -ible, or from dialectal Middle English gull (“newly hatched bird”), perhaps from Old Norse gulr, from the hue of its down.
Pronunciation
Adjective
gullible (comparative more gullible, superlative most gullible)
- Easily deceived or duped; naive, easily cheated or fooled.
- Synonyms: fleeceable, green, naif, naive; see also Thesaurus:gullible
Andrew is so gullible, the way he still believes in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, and the Sandman at the age of fourteen.
Derived terms
Translations
easily deceived or duped, naive
- Arabic: سَاذَج (ar) m (sāḏaj)
- Iraqi Arabic: قَشْمَرْ (Qašmar)
- Armenian: դյուրահավատ (hy) (dyurahavat), միամիտ (hy) (miamit)
- Belarusian: даве́рлівы (be) (davjérlivy), легкаве́рны (ljehkavjérny)
- Bulgarian: доверчи́в (bg) (doverčív), наи́вен (bg) (naíven), лекове́рен (bg) (lekovéren)
- Catalan: ingenu (ca) m, albat (ca) m, càndid (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 容易輕信的/容易轻信的 (róngyì qīngxìn de), 輕信別人的/轻信别人的, 輕信別人的/轻信别人的 (qīngxìn biérén de)
- Czech: důvěřivý (cs), naivní (cs), lehkověrný (cs)
- Danish: godtroende, enfoldig, naiv
- Dutch: naïef (nl), lichtgelovig (nl), goedgelovig (nl)
- Esperanto: kredema, naiva (eo)
- Estonian: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: herkkäuskoinen (fi), sinisilmäinen (fi), hyväuskoinen (fi)
- French: crédule (fr), naïf (fr)
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: einfältig (de), leichtgläubig (de), naiv (de), gutgläubig (de)
- Greek: εύπιστος (el) m (éfpistos), αφελής (el) m (afelís)
- Hebrew: פֶּתִי (he) m (péti)
- Hungarian: hiszékeny (hu), naiv (hu), becsapható, rászedhető (hu), átejthető
- Icelandic: trúgjarn, auðtrúa
- Italian: credulone (it)
- Japanese: please add this translation if you can
- Khmer: ឆោត (km) (chaot)
- Korean: please add this translation if you can
- Latin: crēdulus
- Latvian: please add this translation if you can
- Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
- Luxembourgish: naiv (lb), liichtgleeweg, topeg
- Macedonian: лековерен (lekoveren)
- Maori: tūpatokore
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: godtroende (no), lettlurt, naiv (no)
- Nynorsk: godtruande, lettlurt, naiv
- Occitan: creserèl (oc), credul (oc)
- Polish: naiwny (pl), łatwowierny (pl)
- Portuguese: crédulo (pt)
- Russian: дове́рчивый (ru) (dovérčivyj), простоду́шный (ru) (prostodúšnyj), наи́вный (ru) (naívnyj), легкове́рный (ru) (lexkovérnyj)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ла̏кове̄ран, ла̏ковје̄ран
- Roman: lȁkovēran (sh), lȁkovjēran
- Slovak: dôverčivý, naivný, ľahkoverný
- Spanish: crédulo (es), cándido (es), ingenuo (es), engañadizo m
- Swedish: lättlurad (sv)
- Tagalog: mapaniwalain
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: saf (tr), naif (tr)
- Ukrainian: дові́рливий (dovírlyvyj), легкові́рний (lehkovírnyj)
- Vietnamese: cả tin (vi)
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Noun
gullible (plural gullibles)
- A gullible person; someone easily fooled or tricked.
1991, Guy Endore, Babouk: Voices of Resistance, page 70:They pictured to these gullibles the unearthly delights that were to be enjoyed as servants of the Spaniards. But such tricks could not last, for Cuba was too close to Saint Domingue, and news of the real conditions leaked across the windward passage and were bruited about.
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