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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Credulous \Cred"u*lous\ (kr?d"?-l?s; 135), a. [L. credulus, fr.
     credere. See {Creed}.]
     1. Apt to believe on slight evidence; easily imposed upon;
        unsuspecting. --Landor.
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              Eve, our credulous mother.            --Milton.
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     2. Believed too readily. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  credulous
       adj 1: disposed to believe on little evidence; "the gimmick would
              convince none but the most credulous" [ant: {incredulous}]
       2: showing a lack of judgment or experience; "so credulous he
          believes everything he reads"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  86 Moby Thesaurus words for "credulous":
     accepting, apish, asinine, batty, befooled, beguiled, believing,
     besotted, brainless, buffoonish, childlike, cockeyed, confiding,
     crazy, daffy, daft, dazed, dependent, depending, dizzy, doting,
     dumb, dupable, easily taken in, easy of belief, fatuitous, fatuous,
     flaky, fond, fool, foolheaded, foolish, fuddled, futile, gaga,
     goofy, green, guileless, gulled, gullible, idiotic, imbecile,
     inane, inclined to believe, inept, inexperienced, infatuated,
     innocent, insane, kooky, loony, mad, maudlin, moronic, naive,
     nutty, overconfiding, overcredulous, overtrustful, overtrusting,
     reliant, relying, sappy, screwy, senseless, sentimental, silly,
     simple, stupid, superstitious, thoughtless, trustful, trusting,
     trusty, uncritical, undoubting, unquestioning, unskeptical,
     unsophisticated, unsuspecting, unsuspicious, unwary, wacky, wet,
     without suspicion, witless
  
  

















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