“The phishing email was so good, even a credible person might fall for it.”
Confusables Entry 122 / 1011 60-second read
Credible vs. Credulous
Believable versus being too ready to believe.
The comparisoni
“The phishing email was so good, even a credulous person might fall for it.”
More examplesii
01
Is this source credulous?
Is this source credible?
02
He is too credible for his own good.
He is too credulous for his own good.
The ruleiii
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CREDIBLE = believable or convincing.
Both share the root 'cred' (belief), but one is a positive attribute of information and the other is often a negative attribute of a person.
Memory aidiv
Remember it like this
Credible = believable. Credulous = gullible.