credulous
KREJ-uh-lusadjMeaning too ready to believe things; easily fooled
Memory hook CREDU-LOU-s: Lou believes ANYTHING. Rex sells young Lou a “flying potion,” and Lou pays him on the spot without a single question. Lou believes anything: he is credulous.
The credulous tourist paid ten dollars for a “real” moon rock.
In context Only the most credulous readers believed the website’s claim that a single bean could make a person fly.
Similar gullible, naive, trusting, unsuspecting
Opposite skeptical, incredulous, suspicious
From Latin credulus, “trusting,” from credere, “to believe.”