implausible
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7.0
- adjective
- /ɪmˈplɔːzəbl/
:
inverosímil
- Her story seemed implausible, as it included too many unbelievable coincidences.
- seems implausible
- utterly implausible
- highly implausible
So it's not implausible that that would have been the case in this position.
- So it's not implausible that that would have been the case in this position.
- So the argument that Aristotle gives here seems to be a little bit implausible, He says.
- Now look, I'm not a geophysicist, but I find this idea extremely implausible.
- Superdeterminism is an unfortunate term that John Bell used to describe what he thought was an implausible explanation.
- What other virtues or defects of a more abstract type might it have that make it plausible or implausible?
- That said, while I don't think time travel is strictly speaking impossible, I'll admit that for all we currently know, it appears to be very implausible.
- They they really, really are implausible and don't do the trick.
- He thought that they were, you know, kind of implausible, poorly put together.
- When I was young, I'd found my life perturbed incrementally by the implausible truth of my embodiment.
- But most of you and most of accounts readers think there's something odd and implausible about this answer.
- But what it does say is that yeah, these these extreme scenarios are really implausible.
- The plane it traces shoots out a space whose dimensions are at once autotelic and implausible in this world.
Examples
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His father-in-law's story struck him as even more implausible now than it had this morning.
Fiction book (1994) -
I know, it sounds completely implausible.
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It's got to be so simple, it's really implausible that it works.
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So it's not implausible that that would have been the case in this position.
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And it just becomes implausible to discuss the whole thing in any detail.
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Well, I admit that at first, it did seem somewhat implausible.
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Every time I see a story about some new scare that's gonna give cancer to people, it's always completely implausible.
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One might think the second scenario, where the environment trumps the economy, is implausible.
Academic text (2011) -
It is nonetheless not implausible to think that this might be true.
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Tokusho's illness was unusual but not implausible, and the villagers nearly forgot about him.
Fiction book (1998)
Synonyms
487
1.9
People do not expect it to happen or be true
432
4.9
Very surprising and almost impossible to accept as true
288
4.4
So silly or unreasonable that it makes no sense
96
4.0
Not having a sensible idea of what can be done in real life
72
7.3
Very silly and unreasonable so it seems laughable
53
4.9
Not likely to happen or be true
38
3.0
Not likely to be true or real
8
7.5
Not likely to be true or believable
1
9.9
Only in the imagination and very unlikely to happen
Hard to believe because it lacks good proof
Not believable or trustworthy
Not sensible or likely to happen
Antonyms
How Believable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Implausible is made of im- meaning 'not' and plausible, which is related to the idea of 'applause' and the word applaud, so 'plausible' once meant 'worthy of approval'. So, implausible means 'not believable' or 'not likely'.