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credulous adjective 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. That sentence contains a 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"). 1 : ready to believe especially on slight or uncertain evidence2 : proceeding from credulity

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May 29, 2011 KREJ-uh-lus 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.  "Koolhoven's philosophical probing of human limitation among the good guys -- and of what that complexity might mean to a credulous lad hungry for role models -- is all but overwhelmed by his commercial instincts and undeniable skill at juggling realism with genre." -- From a movie review by Ella Taylor in The Village Voice, March 16, 2011

Word	credulous
Date	May 29, 2011
Type	adjective
Syllables	KREJ-uh-lus
Etymology	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. That sentence contains a 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").
Examples	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. "Koolhoven's philosophical probing of human limitation among the good guys -- and of what that complexity might mean to a credulous lad hungry for role models -- is all but overwhelmed by his commercial instincts and undeniable skill at juggling realism with genre." -- From a movie review by Ella Taylor in The Village Voice, March 16, 2011
Definition	1 : ready to believe especially on slight or uncertain evidence 2 : proceeding from credulity

Credulous Give Adjective Krej Uh Lus It’s Easier Credit People