What is the meaning of the word gullible?

easily persuaded to believe something; credulous.

“an attempt to persuade a gullible public to spend their money”.

A person whose emotions and feelings are easily influenced by deception, gossip, hype, propaganda in media, lies and information that is not true.

Gullibility is a failure of social intelligence in which a person is easily tricked or manipulated into an ill-advised course of action.

It is closely related to credulity, which is the tendency to believe unlikely propositions that are unsupported by evidence.

The words gullible and naive are similar. Both are adjectives.

Both describe a person who has little life experience and “adult” wisdom.

A gullible person believes what other people say and does what others ask without thinking.

is thought that gullible might be derived from the verb gull, meaning “to swallow.”

This would be a funny coincidence as gullible describes an overly trusting person who tends to swallow the stories he hears whole.