Word info Synonyms Antonyms

plausibly

Adverb

Meaning

In a plausible manner.

Contentedly, readily.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

Show all synonyms

Antonyms

Show all antonyms

Related terms

Phrases with the word

Anagrams

Examples

Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly. Jean Cocteau

The majority of the economic oscillations which we encounter seem to be explained most plausibly as free oscillations. Ragnar Frisch

Law is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained. Aaron Burr

It might be plausibly maintained, that in almost every one of the leading controversies, past or present, in social philosophy, both sides were in the right in what they affirmed, though wrong in what they denied. John Stuart Mill

How is one to have any respect for the world where nothing else matters except who can lie the most plausibly and steal the most? Halldór Laxness

His heart was in the right place. He wanted a religion that could plausibly comfort widows and orphans without committing them to patriarchy, intolerance, fundamentalism, or weird dietary laws. He wanted a religion that wasn't in a perpetual fistfight with modern cosmology. Robert Charles Wilson

Close letter words and terms