Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Difficult to believe; not plausible.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not plausible; not having the appearance of truth or credibility; of dubious aspect.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not plausible; not wearing the appearance of truth or credibility, and not likely to be believed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not
plausible ;unlikely ;dubious .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having a quality that provokes disbelief
- adjective highly imaginative but unlikely
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Examples
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It was implausible from the start and sounds downright ludicrous now.
Waldo Jaquith - McCain camp can’t cite any Palin foreign policy experience. 2008
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But Bridge undercuts his credibility by describing early childhood and later events in implausible and gratuitous detail, including pages of line-by-line dialogue.
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I don’t find that utterly implausible – and among the reasons that I don’t find it implausible is that at various times in American history, universities have had quota systems for Jews, and there is reason to suspect that University of California may be doing something like a quota system for Asians.
The Volokh Conspiracy » But Isn’t It a Bit Hard to Predict With a 7-Year-Old? 2010
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Let me add one more item: Senator Obama’s indulgence in implausible reconciliations of past and present statements evidences an internal conviction that he is so charismatic, clever and convincing that ordinary mortals can be counted on to fall in readily with this week’s version of reality.
Stromata Blog: 2008
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Let me add one more item: Senator Obama’s indulgence in implausible reconciliations of past and present statements evidences an internal conviction that he is so charismatic, clever and convincing that ordinary mortals can be counted on to fall in readily with this week’s version of reality.
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When one judge believes the plausibility of a claim of discrimination and another judge feels the claim is implausible, that is a very ill-defined and essentially discretionary decision that sensible people can disagree about.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Legal Ambiguity, Empathy, and the Role of Judicial Power: 2009
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It is being described as implausible given the number of people.
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He also said he promoted the vehicles to the Chinese government, a statement that has been described as implausible by Fred Bild, Canada's ambassador to China at the time of the alleged lobbying.
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Ex Bank of America CEO calls suit "implausible" - Lawyers for former Bank of America CEO Ken
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That seems kind of implausible, given that the readers can see the characters on the covers.
mohitanand commented on the word implausible
adjective: describing a statement that is not believable
The teacher found it implausible that the student was late to school because he had been kidnapped by outlaws on horseback.
October 19, 2016