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IMPLAUSIBLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does implausible mean?
• IMPLAUSIBLE (adjective)
The adjective IMPLAUSIBLE has 1 sense:
1. having a quality that provokes disbelief
Familiarity information: IMPLAUSIBLE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having a quality that provokes disbelief
Context example:
gave the teacher an implausible excuse
Similar:
cockamamie; cockamamy (informal term for ridiculous and implausible)
far-fetched; farfetched ((of an idea or story) so exaggerated or ludicrous as to be improbable)
improbable; unbelievable; unconvincing; unlikely (having a probability too low to inspire belief)
Also:
incredible; unbelievable (beyond belief or understanding)
Antonym:
plausible (apparently reasonable and credible, and therefore convincing)
Derivation:
implausibility; implausibleness (the quality of provoking disbelief)
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