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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gullible, naive |
| Synonyms: | accepting, believing, born yesterday, dupable, easy mark, falling for, green, overtrusting, simple, swallow whole, taken in, trustful, trusting, uncritical, unquestioning, unsophisticated, unsuspecting, unsuspicious, unwary |
| Notes: | credible means 'believable' and credulous means 'gullible' |
| Antonyms: | skeptical, suspecting, suspicious, untrusting |
| Main Entry: | innocent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | harmless, naive |
| Synonyms: | artless, childlike, credulous, frank, fresh, guileless, gullible, hurtless, ignorant, inexperienced, ingenuous, innocuous, innoxious, inobnoxious, inoffensive, offenseless, open, raw, safe, simple, soft, square, unacquainted, unartificial, uncool, unfamiliar, unhurtful, uninjurious, unmalicious, unobjectionable, unoffensive, unschooled, unsophisticated, unstudied, unsuspicious, unworldly, well-intentioned, wellmeant, wide-eyed, youthful |
| Antonyms: | cunning, experienced, impure, knowledgeable |
| Main Entry: | naive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | childlike, trusting |
| Synonyms: | aboveboard, artless, callow, candid, confiding, countrified, credulous, forthright, frank, fresh, green*, guileless, gullible, harmless, ignorant, impulsive, ingenuous, innocent, innocuous, instinctive, jejune, lamb, like a babe in the woods, natural, open, original, patsy, plain, simple, simple-minded, sincere, spontaneous, square, sucker, unaffected, unjaded, unpretentious, unschooled, unsophisticated, unsuspecting, unsuspicious, untaught, unworldly, virgin, wide-eyed |
| Antonyms: | experienced, leery, skeptical, wise |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | trusting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | trustful |
| Synonyms: | believing, confiding, credulous, gullible, innocent, naive, undoubting, unquestioning, unsuspecting, unsuspicious |
| Main Entry: | unsuspecting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gullible |
| Synonyms: | confiding, credulous, easy, inexperienced, ingenuous, innocent, naive, off guard, simple, swallowing, taken in, trustful, trusting, unconscious, undoubting, unsuspicious, unwarned, unwary |
| Antonyms: | conscious, expecting, knowing, realizing, suspecting |
| Main Entry: | unwary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thoughtless, heedless |
| Synonyms: | brash, careless, credulous, hasty, ignorant, ill-advised, impetuous, imprudent, incautious, inconsiderate, indiscreet, negligent, rash, reckless, unadvised, unalert, uncircumspect, unguarded, unprepared, unsuspecting, unsuspicious, unvigilant, unwatchful |
| Antonyms: | cautious, heeding, mindful, thoughtful, wary |
| Main Entry: | exploitable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | easy |
| Synonyms: | credulous, dupable, exploitative, exploitatory, exploitive, green, gullible, innocent, naive, susceptible, trusting, unsophisticated, unsuspecting, unsuspicious |
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| Main Entry: | credulous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
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