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toowillingtobelievewhat you are told and soeasilydeceived 轻信的;易上当的SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesStupid and silly - absurd
- absurdity
- absurdly
- adolescent
- againstyourbetter judgmentidiom
- dopey
- dorky
- dottiness
- dotty
- dozily
- impolitic
- imprudent
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- inadvisable
- uncritically
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See more results » (Definition ofcredulousfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)- I do not think I am a particularly credulous person, or one prone to indulge in easy enthusiasms, and I certainly don't believe in painting a fairy picture in glowing colours by way of being encouraging.
- She was gentle, simple, credulous, and not at all intriguing, and did not try to draw any benefit from a liaison which at best was only temporary.
- The credulous soldier and his equally simple sister believed this wonderful tale, and pressed their royal visitor to continue to receive their humble hospitality.
- This sudden revival of the dead may answer for the credulous lovers of marvels, but it would hardly do for a jury of twelve sober-minded and sworn men.
- Well, I must have a very benevolent face or a very credulous one!
Examplesofcredulouscredulous In acreduloussystem, both conclusions would be acceptable, whereas in a sceptical system neither of them would.From theCambridge English Corpus However, even the mostcreduloussitter balked at the notion of an otherworldly visitor wearing stays.From theCambridge English Corpus Thecreduloussemantics of an argumentation framework is given by the following definition.From theCambridge English Corpus Since an argumentation framework could have more than one preferred extension, the preferred semantics is calledcredulous.From theCambridge English Corpus In this case,credulous(anti-)explanations and skeptical (anti-)explanations coincide.From theCambridge English Corpus What do we make of somecreduloussocial scientists taking it seriously?From theCambridge English Corpus The first one represents a skeptical approach and the second one represents acredulousapproach.From theCambridge English Corpus Throughout the paper, a skeptical/credulous(anti-)explanation is simply called an (anti-)explanation when such a distinction is not important.From theCambridge English Corpus Second, we provide methods of computing bothcredulousand skeptical (minimal) explanations through update programs.From theCambridge English Corpus Interestingly, this calculus is not derived fromcredulousinference; also, it does not need the given program to be instantiated before reasoning.From theCambridge English Corpus The final example shows that if we do not allow any rebuts as attacks, then we obtain a strictly morecreduloussemantics.From theCambridge English Corpus Alternately, it may stand forcreduloushumanity or even for the poet himself.From theCambridge English Corpus In acreduloussystem, a conclusion is considered acceptable if it follows from some acceptable argument.From theCambridge English Corpus The three opening chapters expertly sift the credible from thecredulous.From theCambridge English Corpus On the other hand, in thecredulousapproach we accept conclusions which are included in at least one extension.From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. #https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/credulous## |