What are some opposite words for gullible?
Antonyms for gullible
ˈgʌl ə bəlgullible
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term gullible.
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gullibleadjective
Synonyms:
fleeceable, green, naif, naïvegullibleadjective
Easily deceived or duped; naïve, easily cheated or fooled.
Synonyms:
naif, green, fleeceable, naïve
Princeton's WordNet
fleeceable, green, gullibleadjective
naive and easily deceived or tricked
"at that early age she had been gullible and in love"
Antonyms:
wary, sophisticatedSynonyms:
light-green, green, unripened, greenish, unripe, dark-green, immature, fleeceablegullibleadjective
easily tricked because of being too trusting
"gullible tourists taken in by the shell game"
Antonyms:
sophisticated, warySynonyms:
fleeceable, green
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
gullibleadjective
Synonyms:
credulous
How to use gullible in a sentence?
The Philippines is immediately ordering the Bureau of Immigration to deny US Senators Dick Durbin and Patrick Leahy the imperious, uninformed, and gullible American legislators who introduced the subject provisions into the 2020 budget entry to the Philippines.
Your children’s children will live under communism. You Americans are so gullible. No, you won’t accept Communism outright, but we’ll keep feeding you small doses of Socialism until you will finally wake up and find that you already have Communism. We won’t have to fight you; We’ll so weaken your economy, until you fall like overripe fruit into our hands.
This has become an extortion racket. They are preying on gullible people, these brokers have spread everywhere, in the villages, in towns. They are like veins in your body.
We are gullible, and we like myths; we like stories, and there is one. And if your sex life is important, and you believe that there is this potion, you think, 'Well, why not give it a go?'.
Senior District Judge Reggie Walton:
What concerns me, sir, is that you were gullible enough to come to Washington, DC, from Florida based on a lie.
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#6642 | sophisticated | |
#22516 | wary | |
#52369 | gullible |
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