People and roles
Synonyms for gullible
The synonym for gullible recorded in this bank is naive, in the sense "easily deceived or tricked due to being too trusting". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for gullible
- naiveadjective, in the sense "easily deceived or tricked due to being too trusting"
One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day gullible is audited in a second meaning.
easily deceived or tricked due to being too trusting
The gullible tourist believed the con artist's obvious lie.
The true synonym
naive
Same sentence, swapped: The naive tourist believed the con artist's obvious lie.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- shrewd
- hostile
- indifferent
Where gullible turns up in the game
gullible is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where gullible is the trap
- clairvoyantadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is psychic, in the sense "claiming to perceive events or things beyond normal senses", and gullible is one of the three tiles that lose.
- greenadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is immature, in the sense "not fully developed or mature", so gullible is there to be ruled out.
Play gullible
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so gullible reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other people and roles words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. gullible carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.