as in naive
too willing to believe things without substantial proof
Few people are credulous enough to believe such nonsense. a credulous audience
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Recent Examples of credulous
Many in the online pundit class balked at his article, casting it as anecdotal and credulous.
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Antonia Hitchens,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
That act of imagination—that force of creative will, directed upon one’s own inner vision—is far more interesting to me than either a purely functionalist understanding of flight or a purely credulous one.
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Chandler Fritz,
The New York Review of Books,
21 Mar. 2026
The dissenting conservatives—Justices Brett Kavanaugh, Clarence Thomas, and Samuel Alito—who were sympathetic to major questions in its prior applications are more credulous this time.
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Idrees Kahloon,
The Atlantic,
20 Feb. 2026
Frequently, the seniors and social media debate tends to adopt a blanket approach, framing them as passive algorithmic victims that are credulous, overwhelmed and in need of rescue.
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Angelica Mari,
Forbes.com,
12 Feb. 2026
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Antonia Hitchens,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
That act of imagination—that force of creative will, directed upon one’s own inner vision—is far more interesting to me than either a purely functionalist understanding of flight or a purely credulous one.
—
Chandler Fritz,
The New York Review of Books,
21 Mar. 2026
The dissenting conservatives—Justices Brett Kavanaugh, Clarence Thomas, and Samuel Alito—who were sympathetic to major questions in its prior applications are more credulous this time.
—
Idrees Kahloon,
The Atlantic,
20 Feb. 2026
Frequently, the seniors and social media debate tends to adopt a blanket approach, framing them as passive algorithmic victims that are credulous, overwhelmed and in need of rescue.
—
Angelica Mari,
Forbes.com,
12 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for credulous
Adjective
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The cyclical reality awaiting ‘naive capital’ Allianz is far from the only insurer to have prospered through recent upheavals.
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But performing fealty to that naïve and impoverished picture of judging had become nearly de rigueur for both liberals and conservatives.
Adjective
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Colocousis said people who think scam victims like him are gullible idiots don’t understand the sophistication of criminal organizations behind online fraud.
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However, several of the sequences, including the scenes between Imani and Layla, as well as the more violent and action-based ones, are so far removed from reality that even the most gullible viewers won’t take them seriously.
Adjective
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All defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in a court of law.
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That law predates the much wider United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), which took effect in 1994, giving ships the right of innocent passage through any country's territorial waters without paying a fee.
Adjective
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In practice, portions of the automation framework still feel slightly immature.
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These are the immature stages of small brown moths.
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“Credulous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/credulous. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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