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plausible Definition

plau·sible (plôzə bəl)

adjective

  1. seemingly true, acceptable, etc.: often implying disbelief
  2. seemingly honest, trustworthy, etc.: often implying distrust

Etymology: L plausibilis < plaudere, to applaud

plausible Related Forms
plau′·sibil·ity noun or plau·sible·ness plau·sibly adverb
plausible Synonyms

plausible

modif.

believable, probable, credible, supposable; see likely 1, specious. See syn. study at specious.

plausible Usage Examples

Modifying Another Word

  • biologically: The thrust of CMM based systems is to explore how biologically plausible neural networks can be used for practical computing tasks.
  • superficially: Their reaction was that, although it presented certain arguments in a superficially plausible way, its use of evidence was selective and misleading.
  • intuitively: While this is intuitively plausible, it has never actually been proven.
  • psychologically: A psychologically plausible parsing procedure with partial ability to recognize local unambiguous triggers has been described in [ 3 ] .
  • scientifically: Kubrick consulted with AI experts such as Marvin Minsky to make HAL as scientifically plausible as possible.
  • remotely: I don't know how you could think that what they say is even remotely plausible.

Infinitive complement

  • suppose: Beyond these figures with attested connections to Pyrrho, it is plausible to suppose a certain influence on Pyrrho from Democritus.
  • argue: It is perfectly plausible to argue that there could be a significant beneficial impact by doing what my hon.
  • assume: Is it plausible to assume that the distinction is strict and invariable?
  • think: I don't think it is plausible to think that there is any moral change that occurs during the journey down the birth canal.

Modifies a noun

  • deniability: You've enough plausible deniability to last the rest of your nine lives.
  • explanation: There, at least, is a plausible explanation of the disk shape.
  • hypothesis: A rational model is suggested, where the most plausible hypothesis is selected first.
  • pretense: A trivial occurrence in the year 1222 furnished the court with a plausible pretense to exercise their resentment against the Londoners.
  • pretext: It did not finish the job and, according to the FFH, gave no plausible pretext to justify interrupting the work.
  • scenario: It is already possible, however, to envision a plausible scenario for their application.

Used with adjective complement

  • seem: At first sight the third table also seems plausible.
  • appear: I'm indeed grateful to Donald for clarifying matters for me with an explanation by Rose himself that appears plausible.
  • sound: The excuse from NTL is " lightning strikes on head end " which sounds quite plausible.
  • look: The story does not look very plausible to me.

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