implausible

Adjective complement with noun phrase

make: However, the consequences of an aging population make such cuts implausible.

Infinitive complement

suppose: It would be wildly implausible to suppose that adoption of this structure is a necessary condition for psycho-physical transformation through aikido.

Modifying Another Word

• wildly: You do not need a PhD in airport economics to find this forecast wildly implausible.
• inherently: In any case, the notion of a pitched battle in mountainous terrain seems inherently implausible.
• utterly: For the scientific reductionist, it is utterly implausible that a Rolls Royce should give birth to a Mini.
• wholly: It would be wholly implausible to expect cooperation with such an unchecked range of powers.
• equally: The latest " evidence " about George is equally implausible.
• totally: His own claim, that he has become a genius with no effort or enthusiasm at all is totally implausible.

Used with adjective complement

• seem: The old explanations seem either implausible, or they explain only a fraction of cases.
• sound: The claim of mass rape sounded just too implausible to the Newsroom to be included in the program.
• look: Private sector provision of Internet access for all looks increasingly implausible even in affluent countries.
• find: Actually there are quite a few things I found very implausible.
• become: His nice-guy persona never gels with his actions and so the film becomes implausible.
• render: No Prior Collapse Induced by Fire The official theory is rendered implausible by two major problems.

Modifies a noun

• assumption: To retain the concept of a particle, we must often adopt complicated, artificial and implausible assumptions.
• scenario: This means that there will one day be a Commission without a Frenchman in it, an implausible scenario if ever there was one.
• result: However, other examples can also be presented, in which Recovery yields implausible results.
• plot: One feels one has wondered into implausible plot after implausible plot at every turn!
• story: They ask we expatriate English what it's all about and, to a man, we make up some implausible story.
• suggestion: At least he does not repeat that implausible suggestion.