noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ɡʌlɪˈbɪlɪti/
/ɡʌləˈbɪləti/
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Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
1
noun
Meaning 1
The quality of readily believing information, truthful or otherwise, usually to an absurd extent.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
2
noun
Meaning 2
tendency to believe too readily and therefore to be easily deceived
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: credulousness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: naivete, naivety, naiveness
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English gullible Proto-Indo-European *-teh2 Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh2ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English gullibility From gullible + -ity.
Across languages
Translations
30 source translations are retained for this English entry.
Arabic:
سَذَاجَة
(saḏāja)
— quality of being easily deceived
Bulgarian:
доверчивост
(doverčivost)
— quality of being easily deceived
Bulgarian:
лековерие
(lekoverie)
— quality of being easily deceived
Catalan:
credulitat
— quality of being easily deceived
Chinese Mandarin:
易受骗
— quality of being easily deceived
Czech:
důvěřivost
— quality of being easily deceived
Dutch:
lichtgelovigheid
— quality of being easily deceived
Finnish:
herkkäuskoisuus
— quality of being easily deceived
French:
crédulité
— quality of being easily deceived
Galician:
credulidade
— quality of being easily deceived
German:
Leichtgläubigkeit
— quality of being easily deceived
Greek:
ευπιστία
(efpistía)
— quality of being easily deceived
Greek:
αφέλεια
(aféleia)
— quality of being easily deceived
Hebrew:
תמימות
(tmimút)
— quality of being easily deceived
Latin:
crēdulitās
— quality of being easily deceived
Macedonian:
лековерност
(lekovernost)
— quality of being easily deceived
Māori:
whakapono tūpatokore
— quality of being easily deceived
Polish:
naiwność, łatwowierność
— quality of being easily deceived
Portuguese:
credulidade
— quality of being easily deceived
Russian:
дове́рчивость
(dovérčivostʹ)
— quality of being easily deceived
Russian:
простоду́шие
(prostodúšije)
— quality of being easily deceived
Russian:
наи́вность
(naívnostʹ)
— quality of being easily deceived
Serbo-Croatian:
lakovjernost
— quality of being easily deceived
Spanish:
credulidad
— quality of being easily deceived
Spanish:
tragaderas
— quality of being easily deceived
Spanish:
ingenuidad
— quality of being easily deceived
Spanish:
tragaderos
— quality of being easily deceived
Swedish:
godtrogenhet
— quality of being easily deceived
Tagalog:
kamapaniwalain
— quality of being easily deceived
Vietnamese:
tính cả tin
— quality of being easily deceived
