Credible means reliable or trustworthy: The Wall Street Journal will only publish a report that comes from a credible source.
Credulous means gullible or easily fooled: Only a small child is credulous enough to believe in the existence of the tooth fairy.
Both come from the same root: the Latin word crēdō (to believe).
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credible, credulous, and of course......credit!
The root word of credulous is "cred" as in credit and credible.
credit credits discredit incredible credential
Here is a sentence for the word credible, "The stories reported on BBC are credible to a large extent." Credible is a word which means believable.
This means capable of being believed, or worthy of confidence, or even sufficient military force. Here are some sentences.The small country has a credible army.The police tried to find a credible witness.Many people get the word credible confused with the word credulous.
credendum, credence, credential, credenza, credibility, credible, credibly, credit, credulity, credulous, incredibility, incredible, incredulous, incredulity
If you have had them in the credulous state they will not fail.
That was such a credulous rumor.
Synonyms for credulous are believable, plausible, likely.
credential(s), (dis)credibility, (in)credible, creed, credence, (in)credulity, (in)credulous, (dis)credit(able), (in)credulous(ly), accredit(ation), etc. Credo means "what i believe" (or maybe "to believe" in some circumstances i guess), i thought i might add that just in the case it makes you think of more words that i didn't.
Credulous is a word used to describe someone who believes in something specific. Someone who is very gullible could be called credulous.