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gullible

adj
/ˈɡʌlɪbl̩/US

Etymology

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.

  1. derived from gulr — “yellow, pale”
  2. derived from gole

Definitions

  1. Easily deceived or duped

    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.

  2. A gullible person

    A gullible person; someone easily fooled or tricked.

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

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at gullible. 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 gullible. 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 gullible

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