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Word entry · 8 letters

gullible

Best crossword clue

"Easily fooled"

8 letters · collected on this word page

8 lettersPronunciation /ˈɡʌlɪbl̩/Part of speech adjectiveSorted begillluStarts with GEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. 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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