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gullible

adjective

variants: also gullable

Synonyms and Antonyms of gullible

readily taken advantage of

wished that his brother weren't so gullible as to believe he could win the fixed carnival game if he kept playing it

Synonyms of gullible

dewy-eyed, easy, exploitable, naive (or naïve), susceptible, trusting, unwary, wide-eyed

Words Related to gullible

credulous, overcredulous, trustful, uncritical, unsuspecting, unsuspicious

artless, genuine, guileless, innocent, simple, unsophisticated, unworldly

fictile, malleable, pliable, pliant

acquiescent, agreeable, amiable, obliging

Near Antonyms of gullible

critical, cynical, mistrustful, skeptical, suspicious, wary

clear-eyed, clear-sighted, hardheaded

shrewd, street-smart, streetwise

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