Search results
- Dictionarycredulous/ˈkrɛdjʊləs/
adjective
- 1. having or showing too great a readiness to believe things: "a ceremony staged for credulous tourists"
Powered by Oxford Dictionaries
CREDULOUS definition: 1. too willing to believe what you are told and so easily deceived 2. too willing to believe what…. Learn more.
People who believe things easily without having to be convinced are credulous. Sales people are always hoping that someone credulous picks up the phone during a sales call. Credulous comes from the 16th-century Latin credulus, or "easily believes."
The cred in credulous is from Latin credere, meaning “to believe” or “to trust.” Credulous describes people who would be wise to be a bit more skeptical, or things that ought to be approached with some skepticism.
adjective. If you describe someone as credulous, you have a low opinion of them because they are too ready to believe what people tell them and are easily deceived. [disapproval] ...quack doctors charming money out of the pockets of credulous health-hungry citizens.
Excessively ready to believe things; gullible. Wiktionary. Synonyms: unskeptical. overcredulous. unwary. unsuspecting. accepting. naive. trusting. gullible. exploitable. easy. dupable. susceptible. Antonyms: incredulous. untrusting. suspicious. suspecting. skeptical.
Credulous definition: willing to believe or trust too readily, especially without proper or adequate evidence; gullible. . See examples of CREDULOUS used in a sentence.
adjective. formal us / ˈkredʒ.ə.ləs / uk / ˈkredʒ.ə.ləs / Add to word list. too willing to believe what you are told and so easily deceived. Synonym. gullible. Opposite. incredulous. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Stupid and silly. absurdity. absurdly. adolescent. against your better judgment idiom. dopily. dorky. dottiness. dotty.
If you describe someone as credulous, you have a low opinion of them because they are too ready to believe what people tell them and are easily deceived.
Definition of credulous adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
1. tending to believe something on little evidence. 2. arising from or characterized by credulity: credulous beliefs. [C16: from Latin crēdulus, from crēdere to believe] ˈcredulously adv. ˈcredulousness n.
