DECEIVABLE Synonyms: 46 Similar and Opposite Words

deceivable

adjective

Definition of deceivable

as in gullible

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Adjective

Eleven gullible idiots were talked into acquitting because of an imaginary female ailment.

— Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 20 Sep. 2026
Journalists being preyed upon, journalists taking it to the man, journalists being gullible, whatever.

— Jim Cramer, CNBC, 13 Sep. 2026

Definition of gullible

Adjective

Up to 9 out of 10 people who are susceptible will get the virus if exposed, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 6 Oct. 2026
The most susceptible areas will be Long Beach and the Avalon Harbor on Tuesday and Wednesday and then Malibu through Ventura County from Wednesday through Friday.

— Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of susceptible

Adjective

Five months later, the Taliban militia, which had no airpower and unsophisticated weaponry, seized control of Kabul in just ten days.

— Robin Wright, New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2026
Sophisticated scams The days of thinking of scammers as unsophisticated, disjointed actors are over in 2026, according to Yoon.

— Ella Moore July 2, Miami Herald, 2 July 2026

Definition of unsophisticated

Adjective

Rebecca and Verity, which stars Johnson, are also about a new, naïve lover entering the home of a bad man with a wife hidden in his house of horrors.

— Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 28 Sep. 2026
Their 16-year-old had gone from being a naive gamer to converting to an extreme vision of Islam in a matter of months – and began judging the world through that dark prism.

— Jeff Winter, CNN Money, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of naive

Adjective

Adam, simple and trusting, is an easy mark for a desperate woman looking for a life raft.

— Alison Herman, Variety, 1 Oct. 2026
Now, none of this excuses what Cathy does to poor, sweet, trusting Faye, whom Martha Plimpton plays with a chummy maternal quality that makes her grotesque demise that much more upsetting.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of trusting

Adjective

The guileless Lowen gobbles it up, spinning an elaborate fantasy about the woman Verity was before the accident.

— Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
In a film full of surfaces — Pattinson’s TV-ready sheen, a physical landscape dominated by ever-present screens — his guileless vulnerability provides necessary depth.

— Joe Reid, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of guileless

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