| credulous | | |
| adj. | 1. credulous | disposed to believe on little evidence.; "the gimmick would convince none but the most credulous" |
| ~ credible | (a common but incorrect usage where `credulous' would be appropriate) credulous.; "she was not the...credible fool he expected" |
| ~ overcredulous | too credulous for your own good. |
| ~ unquestioning | not inclined to ask questions. |
| ~ naif, naive | marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.; "a teenager's naive ignorance of life"; "the naive assumption that things can only get better"; "this naive simple creature with wide friendly eyes so eager to believe appearances" |
| ~ trustful, trusting | inclined to believe or confide readily; full of trust.; "great brown eye, true and trustful" |
| adj. | 2. credulous | showing a lack of judgment or experience.; "so credulous he believes everything he reads" |
| ~ naif, naive | marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.; "a teenager's naive ignorance of life"; "the naive assumption that things can only get better"; "this naive simple creature with wide friendly eyes so eager to believe appearances" |
| superstitious | | |
| adj. | 1. superstitious | showing ignorance of the laws of nature and faith in magic or chance.; "finally realized that the horror he felt was superstitious in origin" |
| ~ irrational | not consistent with or using reason.; "irrational fears"; "irrational animals" |
| really | | |
| adv. | 1. genuinely, really, truly | in accordance with truth or fact or reality.; "she was now truly American"; "a genuinely open society"; "they don't really listen to us" |
| adv. | 2. actually, really | in actual fact.; "to be nominally but not actually independent"; "no one actually saw the shark"; "large meteorites actually come from the asteroid belt" |
| adv. | 3. in truth, really, truly | in fact (used as intensifiers or sentence modifiers).; "in truth, moral decay hastened the decline of the Roman Empire"; "really, you shouldn't have done it"; "a truly awful book" |
| ~ intensifier, intensive | a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies.; "`up' in `finished up' is an intensifier"; "`honestly' in `I honestly don't know' is an intensifier" |
| adv. | 4. rattling, real, really, very | used as intensifiers; `real' is sometimes used informally for `really'; `rattling' is informal.; "she was very gifted"; "he played very well"; "a really enjoyable evening"; "I'm real sorry about it"; "a rattling good yarn" |
| believe | | |
| v. (cognition) | 1. believe | accept as true; take to be true.; "I believed his report"; "We didn't believe his stories from the War"; "She believes in spirits" |
| ~ understand, infer | believe to be the case.; "I understand you have no previous experience?" |
| ~ swallow | believe or accept without questioning or challenge.; "Am I supposed to swallow that story?" |
| ~ buy | accept as true.; "I can't buy this story" |
| ~ believe | follow a credo; have a faith; be a believer.; "When you hear his sermons, you will be able to believe, too" |
| ~ accept | consider or hold as true.; "I cannot accept the dogma of this church"; "accept an argument" |
| ~ rely, trust, swear, bank | have confidence or faith in.; "We can trust in God"; "Rely on your friends"; "bank on your good education"; "I swear by my grandmother's recipes" |
| ~ believe in | have a firm conviction as to the goodness of something.; "John believes in oat bran" |
| v. (cognition) | 2. believe, conceive, consider, think | judge or regard; look upon; judge.; "I think he is very smart"; "I believe her to be very smart"; "I think that he is her boyfriend"; "The racist conceives such people to be inferior" |
| ~ hold | remain committed to.; "I hold to these ideas" |
| ~ pass judgment, evaluate, judge | form a critical opinion of.; "I cannot judge some works of modern art"; "How do you evaluate this grant proposal?"; "We shouldn't pass judgment on other people" |
| ~ rethink | change one's mind.; "He rethought his decision to take a vacation" |
| ~ think | dispose the mind in a certain way.; "Do you really think so?" |
| ~ look upon, regard as, repute, take to be, esteem, look on, think of | look on as or consider.; "she looked on this affair as a joke"; "He thinks of himself as a brilliant musician"; "He is reputed to be intelligent" |
| ~ feel | have a feeling or perception about oneself in reaction to someone's behavior or attitude.; "She felt small and insignificant"; "You make me feel naked"; "I made the students feel different about themselves" |
| ~ consider, regard, view, reckon, see | deem to be.; "She views this quite differently from me"; "I consider her to be shallow"; "I don't see the situation quite as negatively as you do" |
| v. (cognition) | 3. believe, trust | be confident about something.; "I believe that he will come back from the war" |
| ~ anticipate, expect | regard something as probable or likely.; "The meteorologists are expecting rain for tomorrow" |
| v. (cognition) | 4. believe | follow a credo; have a faith; be a believer.; "When you hear his sermons, you will be able to believe, too" |
| ~ faith, religion, religious belief | a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny.; "he lost his faith but not his morality" |
| ~ believe | accept as true; take to be true.; "I believed his report"; "We didn't believe his stories from the War"; "She believes in spirits" |
| ~ misbelieve | hold a false or unorthodox belief. |
| v. (cognition) | 5. believe | credit with veracity.; "You cannot believe this man"; "Should we believe a publication like the National Enquirer?" |
| ~ credit | have trust in; trust in the truth or veracity of. |
| heed | | |
| n. (cognition) | 1. attentiveness, heed, paying attention, regard | paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people).; "his attentiveness to her wishes"; "he spends without heed to the consequences" |
| ~ attending, attention | the process whereby a person concentrates on some features of the environment to the (relative) exclusion of others. |
| ~ advertence, advertency | the process of being heedful. |
| v. (social) | 2. heed, listen, mind | pay close attention to; give heed to.; "Heed the advice of the old men" |
| ~ obey | be obedient to. |
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