Both Uses of
credulous
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- Zametov had been sitting in the corner, but he rose at the visitors' entrance and was standing in expectation with a smile on his lips, though he looked with surprise and even it seemed incredulity at the whole scene and at Raskolnikov with a certain embarrassment.†
Chpt 3.5incredulity = a state of not believingstandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in incredulity means not and reverses the meaning of credulity. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
- For she is credulous and good-hearted, and she believes everything from the goodness of her heart and…
Chpt 5.1 *credulous = gullible (too willing to believe)
Definition:
gullible (being too willing to believe)