PLAUSIBLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does plausibly mean? 

• PLAUSIBLY (adverb)
  The adverb PLAUSIBLY has 1 sense:

1. easy to believe on the basis of available evidence

  Familiarity information: PLAUSIBLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLAUSIBLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Easy to believe on the basis of available evidence

Synonyms:

believably; credibly; plausibly; probably

Context example:

he will probably win the election

Pertainym:

plausible (apparently reasonable and credible, and therefore convincing)

 Context examples 

It was a stroke of positive genius on his part to see in the burglary scare which was convulsing the country side an opportunity of plausibly getting rid of the man whom he feared.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)