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plau·si·ble
 plausible
- pronunciation:
- plaw
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| part of speech: |
adjective |
| definition 1: |
seeming to be truthful or reasonable; credible.
That her husband had come back early from his trip was the most plausible explanation for the front door being unlocked.- synonyms:
- admissible, believable, credible, feasible, likely, tenable
- antonyms:
- implausible
- similar words:
- conceivable, possible, reasonable, thinkable
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| definition 2: |
of a person, seeming to be honest, worthy, or acceptable, but often not really being so.
- synonyms:
- misleading
- similar words:
- deceptive, sophistic, specious
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| related words: |
apparent, legitimate, logical, probable, sane, sensible, tenable |
| derivations: |
plausibly (adv.), plausibility (n.), plausibleness (n.) |
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