implausible Definition
im·plau·sible (im plô′zə bəl)
adjective
not plausible
implausible Related Forms
im·plau′·sibil′·ity noun pl. -·ties
im·plau′·sibly adverb
implausible Synonyms
implausible
modif.
implausible Usage Examples
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.
Browse dictionary entries near implausible
- ‹ implant
- ‹ implacental
- ‹ implacable
- ‹ implacability
- ‹ impish
- ‹ impious
- ‹ impinge
- ‹ impiety
- ‹ Imphal
- ‹ impf

