Usually means: Easily believes things; not skeptical.
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  1. credulous: Merriam-Webster
  2. credulous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. credulous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. credulous: Collins English Dictionary
  5. credulous: Vocabulary.com
  6. Credulous, credulous: Wordnik
  7. credulous: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. credulous: Wiktionary
  9. credulous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. credulous: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. credulous: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Credulous, credulous: Dictionary.com
  13. credulous: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Credulous: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Credulous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. credulous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. credulous: Rhymezone
  18. Credulous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. credulous: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. credulous: FreeDictionary.org
  21. credulous: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. credulous: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. credulous: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. credulous: Legal dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Excessively ready to believe things; gullible.
▸ adjective:  Believed too readily.

Similar:
overcredulous, naif, naive, credible, unquestioning, ultracredulous, overtrustful, overtrusting, omnicredulous, overskeptical, more...

Opposite:
skeptical, doubtful, disbelieving, incredulous

Phrases:
naively credulous, opposite of credulous, more...

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Similar:
overcredulous, naif, naive, credible, unquestioning, ultracredulous, overtrustful, overtrusting, omnicredulous, overskeptical, more...

Opposite:
skeptical, doubtful, disbelieving, incredulous

Phrases:
naively credulous, opposite of credulous, more...

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    sky blue,     pastel pink,     mint green,     lavender,     peach, more...



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