plausible

Speech parts

1. plausible - Adjective

2. plausible - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Worthy of being applauded; praiseworthy; commendable; ready.

Obtaining approbation; specifically pleasing; apparently right; specious; as, a plausible pretext; plausible manners; a plausible delusion.

Using specious arguments or discourse; as, a plausible speaker.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

possible likely tenable rational reasonable viable probable feasible credible sensible justifiable believable defensible specious persuasive
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Antonyms

implausible batty fantastic amazing impossible weak
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Phrases with the word

be plausible plausible explanation plausible evidence plausible system plausible chance plausible compromise

Examples

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible. Francis Bacon

It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it sadly fails me in framing an excuse; and always the lapse occurs at some crisis, when a facile word or plausible pretext is specially wanted to get me out of painful embarrassment. Charlotte Brontë

Criticism is prejudice made plausible. H. L. Mencken

Fiction has to be plausible. All history has to do is happen. Harry Turtledove

What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree. John Brunner

There is no exercise of the intellect which is not, in the final analysis, useless. A philosophical doctrine begins as a plausible description of the universe; with the passage of the years it becomes a mere chapter - if not a paragraph or a name - in the history of philosophy. Jorge Luis Borges

Close letter words and terms

Plaugher plaunotol plausibility plausible assumption plausible candidate plausible cause