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credulous

adj
/ˈkɹɛd͡ʒələs/

Etymology

Originated in 1576, borrowed from Latin crēdulus (“that easily believes a thing, credulous”), from crēdō (“to believe”).

  1. borrowed from crēdulus

Definitions

  1. Excessively ready to believe things

    Excessively ready to believe things; gullible.

    • The doctor was a small, black, plump man with fuzzy hair and round, credulous eyes.

  2. Believed too readily.

    • 'Twas he possess'd me with your credulous death
    • In the beginning of the ſixteenth century, John Major and Hector Boethius publiſhed their hiſtories of Scotland, the former a ſuccinct and dry vvriter, the latter a copious and florid one, and both equally credulous.

The neighborhood

Derived

credulity, credulosity, credulously, credulousness, discredulous, omnicredulous, overcredulous, ultracredulous, uncredulous

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at credulous. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at credulous. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at credulous

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA