Definitions
easily tricked because of being too trusting
Word origin
Origin uncertain. Either from gull (“to dupe, trick, fool”) + -ible; or alternatively from Middle English gole, goll, gol (“an unfledged bird, silly fellow”), perhaps from Old Norse gulr (“yellow, pale”), from the hue of its down.
Used in a sentence
“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.”
“Spurious accounts that snare the gullible are readily available. Skeptical treatments are much harder to find.”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Easily fooled”8 letters
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