Gullible Synonyms & Antonyms | Synonyms.com (2024)

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:2.8 / 4 votes

1. gullibleadjective

   Synonyms:
   fleeceable, green, naif, naïve

2. gullibleadjective

   Easily deceived or duped; naïve, easily cheated or fooled.

   Synonyms:
   naif, green, fleeceable, naïve

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. fleeceable, green, gullibleadjective

   naive and easily deceived or tricked

   "at that early age she had been gullible and in love"

   Synonyms:
   light-green, green, unripened, greenish, unripe, dark-green, immature, fleeceable

   Antonyms:
   wary, sophisticated

2. gullibleadjective

   easily tricked because of being too trusting

   "gullible tourists taken in by the shell game"

   Synonyms:
   fleeceable, green

   Antonyms:
   sophisticated, wary

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. gullibleadjective

   Synonyms:
   [Low.] credulous, easily duped

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. gullibleadjective

   Synonyms:
   credulous

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:5.0 / 1 vote

1. List of paraphrases for "gullible":

   naive, unsuspecting

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How to use gullible in a sentence?

1. Salvador Panelo:

   The Philippines is immediately ordering the Bureau of Immigration to deny US Senators Dick Durbin and Patrick Leahy the imperious, uninformed, and gullible American legislators who introduced the subject provisions into the 2020 budget entry to the Philippines.

2. Nikita Khrushchev:

   Your children’s children will live under communism. You Americans are so gullible. No, you won’t accept Communism outright, but we’ll keep feeding you small doses of Socialism until you will finally wake up and find that you already have Communism. We won’t have to fight you; We’ll so weaken your economy, until you fall like overripe fruit into our hands.

3. Daniel Russel:

   Just as this week's 'tactical weapon' test was a signal to warn Trump that his much-vaunted 'freeze' is in jeopardy, the verbal attack on Pompeo is meant to encourage Trump to ignore his hardline advisers and make a deal with his 'friend' Kim Jong Un, as long as the North Koreans believe they can flatter and dupe the U.S. president into making important concessions ... they will resist dealing with less gullible and more demanding subordinate U.S. officials.

4. Mohammad Abuzar Al Zahid:

   This has become an extortion racket. They are preying on gullible people, these brokers have spread everywhere, in the villages, in towns. They are like veins in your body.

5. Henry Miller:

   Perhaps I am still very much of an American. That is to say, na?ve, optimistic, gullible. In the eyes of a European, what am I but an American to the core, an American who exposes his Americanism like a sore. Like it or not, I am a product of this land of plenty, a believer in superabundance, a believer in miracles.

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