Antonyms for credulous
ˈkrɛdʒ ə ləscred·u·lous

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1. credulousadjective

   Antonyms:
   incredulous

   Synonyms:
   naive, unworldly

2. credulousadjective

   Excessively ready to believe things; gullible.

   Synonyms:
   naive, unworldly

   Antonyms:
   incredulous

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. credulousadjective

   disposed to believe on little evidence

   "the gimmick would convince none but the most credulous"

   Antonyms:
   incredulous, skeptical, sophisticated, sceptical, unbelieving, disbelieving

2. credulousadjective

   showing a lack of judgment or experience

   "so credulous he believes everything he reads"

   Antonyms:
   skeptical, unbelieving, sceptical, incredulous, sophisticated, disbelieving

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1. credulousadjective

   Antonyms:
   incredulous

   Synonyms:
   unsuspecting, gullible

How to use credulous in a sentence?

1. Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays (1950), "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish":

   Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

2. Bertrand Russell:

   Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

3. Calvin Coolidge:

   When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.

4. Carl Sagan:

   One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It is simply too painful to acknowledge -- even to ourselves -- that we've been so credulous. (So the old bamboozles tend to persist as the new bamboozles rise.)

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