Taken in


Synonyms for taken in
adj gullible, naive

believing
born yesterday
easy mark
green
simple

trusting
uncritical
unsophisticated
unsuspecting
unwary

dupable
unquestioning
accepting
falling for
overtrusting

swallow whole
trustful
unsuspicious

Antonyms for taken in

skeptical
untrusting

suspecting
suspicious

Synonyms
adj naive, trusting

unsuspecting
foolish
unsophisticated
believing
biting
credulous

easy mark
green
innocent
mark
silly
simple

sucker
susceptible
wide-eyed
being a sucker
easily taken in
falling hook line and sinker

kidding oneself
swallowing whole
taking the bait
trustful
tumbling for
unskeptical

Antonyms

astute
discerning
knowledgeable

perceptive
unbelieving
untrusting

wise
suspicious

Synonyms
adj distracted, dreaming

wasted
absent
absorbed
unconscious
bewildered
perplexed

abstracted
engrossed
spellbound
musing
preoccupied
bemused

absentminded
dreamy
faraway
feeble
ignorant
rapt

distrait
entranced
going in circles
inconscient
taken up

Antonyms

disinterested
successful
winning
existing
living

aware
cognizant
unoccupied
accomplishing
found

alive
existent
attentive

Synonyms
adj gullible

innocent
credulous
easy
inexperienced
ingenuous

naive
simple
swallowing
trusting
unconscious

unwary
undoubting
confiding
off guard
trustful

unsuspicious
unwarned

Antonyms

expecting
knowing

conscious
realizing

suspecting

Synonyms
adj defrauded

burned
gypped
conned
swindled

finessed
bamboozled
victimized
tricked

duped
beguiled
overcharged
hoodwinked

bilked
deceived
ripped off
scammed

Synonyms
adj received

accepted

greeted

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  • Taken off guard

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  • Taken out

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  • Taken over

    Synonyms for taken over adj consumed, driven about belief, desire troubled haunted preoccupied controlled infatuated possessed hooked engrossed beset held prepossessed bewitched dogged fiendish into dominated captivated gripped fixated harassed plagued tormented seized bedeviled overpowered eat sleep and breathe have on the brain hung up on immersed in really into tied up turned on up […]


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