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gullible

adjetivosubstantivoatestado nos diálogos

  • Estados Unidos//ˈɡʌlɪbl̩//

Easily deceived or duped; naive, easily cheated or fooled.

adjetivo

  1. 1

    Easily deceived or duped; naive, easily cheated or fooled.

    Andrew is so gullible, the way he still believes in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, and the Sandman at the age of fourteen.

Etimologia

Origin uncertain. Either from gull (“to dupe, trick, fool”) + -ible; or alternatively from Middle English gole, goll, gol (“an unfledged bird, silly fellow”), perhaps from Old Norse gulr (“yellow, pale”), from the hue of its down.

substantivo

  1. 1

    A gullible person; someone easily fooled or tricked.

    They pictured to these gullibles the unearthly delights that were to be enjoyed as servants of the Spaniards. But such tricks could not last, for Cuba was too close to Saint Domingue, and news of the real conditions leaked across the windward passage and were bruited about.

    Spurious accounts that snare the gullible are readily available. Skeptical treatments are much harder to find.

Formas

plural
gullibles
comparativo
more gullible
superlativo
most gullible
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Conteúdo lexical proveniente do Wiktionary, sob licença CC BY-SA 4.0 · Entrada de origem · Versão dos dados 2026-08-23

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