Meaning of PLAUSIBLE
| Pronunciation: | | 'plozubul
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- [adj] appearing to merit belief or acceptance; "a credible witness"; "a plausible story"
- [adj] within the realm of credibility; "not a very likely excuse"; "a plausible story"
- [adj] likely but not certain to be or become true or real; "a likely result"; "he foresaw a probable loss"
- [adj] apparently reasonable and valid
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| | Synonyms: | | arguable, believable, convincing, credible, equiprobable, glib, likely, pat, presumed(a), presumptive, probable, slick, verisimilar |
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| | Antonyms: | | implausible, improbable, unlikely | | |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Plau"si*ble\, a. [L. plausibilis praiseworthy, from
plaudere, plausum, to applaud, clap the hands, strike, beat.]
1. Worthy of being applauded; praiseworthy; commendable;
ready. [Obs.] --Bp. Hacket.
2. Obtaining approbation; specifically pleasing; apparently
right; specious; as, a plausible pretext; plausible
manners; a plausible delusion. ``Plausible and popular
arguments.'' --Clarendon.
3. Using specious arguments or discourse; as, a plausible
speaker.
Syn: {Plausible}, {Specious}.
Usage: Plausible denotes that which seems reasonable, yet
leaves distrust in the judgment. Specious describes
that which presents a fair appearance to the view and
yet covers something false. Specious refers more
definitely to the act or purpose of false
representation; plausible has more reference to the
effect on the beholder or hearer. An argument may by
specious when it is not plausible because its
sophistry is so easily discovered.
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| | Related Terms: | | acceptable, admissible, apparent, apparently sound, believable, casuistic, cogent, cogitable, colorable, colored, conceivable, conceivably possible, contingent, credible, creditable, deceitful, deceptive, disingenuous, empty, fallacious, fiduciary, gilded, hollow, humanly possible, illusive, imaginable, insincere, jesuitic, just, justifiable, legitimate, likely, logical, meretricious, misleading, ostensible, overrefined, oversubtle, philosophistic, possible, potential, presentable, probable, rational, reasonable, reliable, sane, seeming, sensible, smooth, sophistic, sophistical, sound, specious, tenable, thinkable, tinsel, trustworthy, trusty, unexceptionable, unimpeachable, unquestionable, well-argued, well-founded, well-grounded, wholesome, worthy of faith |
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