GULLIBLE Synonyms: 45 Similar and Opposite Words

gullible

adjective

ˈgə-lə-bəl

variants also gullable

as in naive

readily taken advantage of wished that his brother weren't so gullible as to believe he could win the fixed carnival game if he kept playing it

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Recent Examples of gullible Norris’s archetypically American tale gave Stroheim an opportunity to build on his earlier depictions of Americans abroad as gullible and oblivious. —

Richard Brody, New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2026 Traitors is about the gullible and the skeptical working together to sieve the fraudulent from the truthful, an amalgamated nightmare of village idiots locking themselves in the stocks and pelting each other with rotten fruit. —

Raven Smith, Vogue, 9 Jan. 2026 Rather than feeling triumphant at how believable ELIZA was, Weizenbaum was depressed by how gullible people seemed to be. —

Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2025 Teenagers, despite our best efforts to educate them in open-minded ways, are gullible and therefore vulnerable. —

Eli Amdur, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for gullible

Recent Examples of Synonyms for gullible

Adjective

Not because older Americans are more naive.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 9 May 2026
When it was first released in December 1980, it was seen as too weird for kids and too naive for adults, but it has since been reconsidered as a unique snapshot of intersecting talents — a strange, wonderful, one-of-a-kind movie.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2026