Word Meanings - GULLIBLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Easily gulled; that may be duped. -- Gul"li*bii`i*ty, n. Burke.

Related words: (words related to GULLIBLE)

• GULLISH
  Foolish; stupid. Gull"ish*ness, n.
• DUPABLE
  Capable of being duped.
• DUPERY
  The act or practice of duping.
• DUPLICATE
  An original instrument repeated; a document which is the same as another in all essential particulars, and differing from a mere copy in having all the validity of an original. Burrill. (more info) 1. That which exactly resembles or corresponds
• DUPION
  A double cocoon, made by two silkworms.
• GULLIBLE
  Easily gulled; that may be duped. -- Gul"li*bii`i*ty, n. Burke.
• DUPER
  One who dupes another.
• DUP
  To open; as, to dup the door. Shak.
• DUPPER
  See DUBBER
• DUPLICATIVE
  Having the quality of subdividing into two by natural growth. "Duplicative subdivision." Carpenter. (more info) 1. Having the quality of duplicating or doubling.
• EASILY
  1. With ease; without difficulty or much effort; as, this task may be easily performed; that event might have been easily foreseen. 2. Without pain, anxiety, or disturbance; as, to pass life well and easily. Sir W. Temple. 3. Readily;
• GULLET
  The tube by which food and drink are carried from the pharynx to the stomach; the esophagus. 2. Something shaped like the food passage, or performing similar functions; as: A channel for water. A preparatory cut or channel in excavations,
• DUPLICITY
  1. Doubleness; a twofold state. Do not affect duplicities nor triplicities, nor any certain number of parts in your division of things. I. Watts. 2. Doubleness of heart or speech; insincerity; a sustained form of deception which consists
• DUPLE
  Double. Duple ratio , that in which the antecedent term is double the consequent, as of 2 to 1, 8 to 4, etc.
• DUPE
  One who has been deceived or who is easily deceived; a gull; as, the dupe of a schemer. (more info) origin; equiv. to F. huppe hoopoe, a foolish bird, easily caught. Cf.
• GULLER
  One who gulls; a deceiver.
• GULLAGE
  Act of being gulled. Had you no quirk. To avoid gullage, sir, by such a creature B. Jonson
• DUPLICATURE
  A doubling; a fold, as of a membrane.
• GULLETING
  A system of excavating by means of gullets or channels.
• GULLERY
  An act, or the practice, of gulling; trickery; fraud. "A mere gullery." Selden.
• SLUBBERDEGULLION
  A mean, dirty wretch.
• REDUPLICATION
  The doubling of a stem or syllable , with the effect of changing the time expressed, intensifying the meaning, or making the word more imitative; also, the syllable thus added; as, L. tetuli; poposci. (more info) 1. The act of doubling, or the
• CONDUPLICATE
  Folded lengthwise along the midrib, the upper face being within; -- said of leaves or petals in vernation or æstivation.
• UNEASILY
  In an uneasy manner.
• AVOIRDUPOIS
  where peis is fr. OF. peis weight, F. poids, L. pensum. See Aver, n., 1. Goods sold by weight. 2. Avoirdupois weight. 3. Weight; heaviness; as, a woman of much avoirdupois. Avoirdupois weight, a system of weights by which coarser commodities are
• REDUPLICATIVE
  Double; formed by reduplication; reduplicate. I. Watts.
• REDUPLICATE
  Valvate with the margins curved outwardly; -- said of the (more info) 1. Double; doubled; reduplicative; repeated.
• GULL
  To deceive; to cheat; to mislead; to trick; to defraud. The rulgar, gulled into rebellion, armed. Dryden. I'm not gulling him for the emperor's service. Coleridge.
• SEA GULL
  Any gull living on the seacoast.
• GULLY
  A large knife. Sir W. Scott.
• GREASILY
  , adv. 1. In a greasy manner. 2. In a gross or indelicate manner. You talk greasily; your lips grow foul. Shak.
• SUBDUPLICATE
  Expressed by the square root; -- said of ratios. Subduplicate ratio, the ratio of the square roots, or the square root of a ratio; thus, the subduplicate ratio of a to b is *a to *b, or *a/b.