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单词 gullible
释义
gullible
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adj

If you are gullible, the joke is on you because you are easily fooled.
It is thought that gullible might be derived from the verb gull, meaning "to swallow." This would be a funny coincidence as gullible describes an overly trusting person who tends to swallow the stories he hears whole. The related word, gull, can be used as a noun "don't be such a gull!" or as a verb "you can't gull me into believing that!"
WORD FAMILY
gullible: gullibility, gullibly
USAGE EXAMPLES
“He was talking to the protester, screaming at him, really screaming at him,” Trump told his apparently insanely gullible crowd in Tampa, Florida.
Salon(Jan 01, 2017)
The audience — overwhelmingly Jewish, passionately pro-Israel and supremely gullible — applauded wildly.
Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016)
Or was he a gullible, perhaps criminal accomplice to patients who were conning him to feed an addiction or resell their prescriptions?
New York Times(Dec 29, 2016)
1adj naive and easily deceived or tricked
at that early age she had been gullible and in love
Syn
fleeceable, green
naif, naive
marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience
2adj easily tricked because of being too trusting
gullible tourists taken in by the shell game
Syn
unwary
not alert to danger or deception
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