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credulous Definition

credu·lous (krej′o̵o ləs, -ə ləs)

adjective

  1. tending to believe too readily; easily convinced
  2. resulting from or indicating credulity

Etymology: L credulus < credere: see creed

credulous Related Forms

cred′u·lously adverb cred′u·lous·ness noun

credulous Synonyms

credulous

modif.

gullible, unsuspicious, simple, unsophisticated; see naive, trusting 1.

credulous Usage Examples

Infinitive complement

believe: Would he find one man so credulous as to believe him?

Modifies a noun

  • people: Yehouah is a god who was partial first to a particular tribe then to particularly credulous people.
  • fool: Because you don't want to appear a credulous fool.
  • person: However, anyone who believed every word of his Bradford lecture must indeed be a credulous person.
  • state: If you have had them in the credulous state they will not fail.
  • public: Commerce, such as mail-order genetic diagnosis must be regulated for the sake of a vulnerable and credulous public.
  • youth: Livy was not a beast; it is you who are, foolish instructor of credulous youth!

Modifying Another Word

  • too: She looks like a young Sigourney Weaver and plays the naive heroine well, if a little too credulous for my taste.
  • so: Would he find one man so credulous as to believe him?
  • rather: Lorna Martin, the Guardian's Scotland editor seems rather credulous to me.
  • very: If so, he is a very credulous person.
  • strongly: Figure 8: 600 agents simulation, 50 % are strongly credulous, no uniformization takes place.
  • not: If this orator has a pose, it is a pose of simplicity, not credulous, but not openly perfidious either.