| Main Entry: | unsuspecting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gullible |
Synonyms: |
confiding, credulous, easy, inexperienced, ingenuous, innocent, naive, off guard, simple, swallowing, taken in, trustful, trusting, unconscious, undoubting, unsuspicious, unwarned, unwary |
Antonyms: |
conscious, expecting, knowing, realizing, suspecting |
| Main Entry: | credulous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gullible, naive |
Synonyms: |
accepting, believing, born yesterday, dupable, easy mark, falling for, green, overtrusting, simple, swallow whole, taken in, trustful, trusting, uncritical, unquestioning, unsophisticated, unsuspecting, unsuspicious, unwary |
| Notes: | credible means 'believable' and credulous means 'gullible' |
Antonyms: |
skeptical, suspecting, suspicious, untrusting |
| Main Entry: | gullible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | naive, trusting |
Synonyms: |
being a sucker, believing, biting, credulous, easily taken in, easy mark, falling hook line and sinker, foolish, green*, innocent, kidding oneself, mark*, silly, simple, sucker, susceptible, swallowing whole, taken in, taking the bait, trustful, tumbling for, unskeptical, unsophisticated, unsuspecting, wide-eyed |
Antonyms: |
astute, discerning, knowledgeable, perceptive, suspicious, unbelieving, untrusting, wise |
| Main Entry: | ignorant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unaware, unknowing |
Synonyms: |
apprenticed, benighted, birdbrained, blind to, cretinous, dense, green*, illiterate, imbecilic, in the dark, inexperienced, innocent, insensible, mindless, misinformed, moronic, naive, nescient, oblivious, obtuse, shallow, thick, unconscious, unconversant, uncultivated, uncultured, uneducated, unenlightened, uninformed, uninitiated, unintellectual, unknowledgeable, unlearned, unlettered, unmindful, unread, unschooled, unsuspecting, untaught, untrained, unwitting, witless |
Antonyms: |
aware, competent, educated, intelligent, knowledgeable, literate, talented, wise |
| Main Entry: | naive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | childlike, trusting |
Synonyms: |
aboveboard, artless, callow, candid, confiding, countrified, credulous, forthright, frank, fresh, green*, guileless, gullible, harmless, ignorant, impulsive, ingenuous, innocent, innocuous, instinctive, jejune, lamb, like a babe in the woods, natural, open, original, patsy, plain, simple, simple-minded, sincere, spontaneous, square, sucker, unaffected, unjaded, unpretentious, unschooled, unsophisticated, unsuspecting, unsuspicious, untaught, unworldly, virgin, wide-eyed |
Antonyms: |
experienced, leery, skeptical, wise |
| Main Entry: | off-guard |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unprepared |
Synonyms: |
asleep, asleep on the job, daydreaming, flat-footed, inattentive, napping, spaced out, unalert, unready, unsuspecting, unvigilant, unwatchful, zoned out |
| Main Entry: | trusting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | trustful |
Synonyms: |
believing, confiding, credulous, gullible, innocent, naive, undoubting, unquestioning, unsuspecting, unsuspicious |
| Main Entry: | unadvised |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not smart; careless |
Synonyms: |
brash, hasty, heedless, hot-headed, ignorant, ill-advised, imprudent, in the dark, inadvisable, incautious, inconsiderate, indiscreet, injudicious, rash, reckless, thoughtless, unaware, unconsidered, uninformed, unknowing, unsuspecting, unwarned, unwary, unwise |
Antonyms: |
advised, wise |
| Main Entry: | unaware |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ignorant |
Synonyms: |
blind, careless, caught napping, daydreaming, deaf, deaf to, doped, forgetful, heedless, in a daze, inattentive, incognizant, inconversant, insensible, mooning, negligent, nescient, not all there, not cognizant, oblivious, out cold, out of it, out to lunch, spacey, unacquainted, unconcerned, unconscious, unenlightened, unfamiliar, uninformed, uninstructed, unknowing, unmindful, unsuspecting, unwitting |
Antonyms: |
aware, cognizant, informed, knowing, suspicious |
| Main Entry: | unwary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thoughtless, heedless |
Synonyms: |
brash, careless, credulous, hasty, ignorant, ill-advised, impetuous, imprudent, incautious, inconsiderate, indiscreet, negligent, rash, reckless, unadvised, unalert, uncircumspect, unguarded, unprepared, unsuspecting, unsuspicious, unvigilant, unwatchful |
Antonyms: |
cautious, heeding, mindful, thoughtful, wary |