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06-13-04, 12:02PM
credulous • \KREJ-uh-luss\ • adjective
1 : ready to believe especially on slight or uncertain evidence
2 : proceeding from credulity
Example sentence:
Because she is by nature credulous, Ivy didn’t question Bill’s assertion that the castle they stood in had been built in England and shipped across the English Channel to France.
Did you know?
It’s easier to give credit to people who adhere to their creed than to give credence to what miscreants say, or for that matter, to find recreants altogether credible. Believe it or not, that sentence contains a full half dozen words which, like today’s "credulous," are descendants of "credere," the Latin verb that means "to believe" or "to trust": "credit" ("honor," as well as "belief"); "creed" ("guiding principle"); "credence" ("acceptance as true"); "miscreant " ("a heretic" or "a criminal"); "recreant" ("coward, deserter"); and "credible" ("offering reasonable grounds for being believed"). "Credulous" is even more closely allied to the nouns "credulity" and "credulousness" (both meaning "gullibility"), and of course its antonym, "incredulous" ("skeptical," also "improbable").
The witness proved not to be very credulous.
1 : ready to believe especially on slight or uncertain evidence
2 : proceeding from credulity
Example sentence:
Because she is by nature credulous, Ivy didn’t question Bill’s assertion that the castle they stood in had been built in England and shipped across the English Channel to France.
Did you know?
It’s easier to give credit to people who adhere to their creed than to give credence to what miscreants say, or for that matter, to find recreants altogether credible. Believe it or not, that sentence contains a full half dozen words which, like today’s "credulous," are descendants of "credere," the Latin verb that means "to believe" or "to trust": "credit" ("honor," as well as "belief"); "creed" ("guiding principle"); "credence" ("acceptance as true"); "miscreant " ("a heretic" or "a criminal"); "recreant" ("coward, deserter"); and "credible" ("offering reasonable grounds for being believed"). "Credulous" is even more closely allied to the nouns "credulity" and "credulousness" (both meaning "gullibility"), and of course its antonym, "incredulous" ("skeptical," also "improbable").
The witness proved not to be very credulous.