credible
Americanadjective
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capable of being believed; believable.
a credible statement.
- Synonyms:
- tenable, reasonable, likely, plausible
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worthy of belief or confidence; trustworthy.
a credible witness.
adjective
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capable of being believed
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trustworthy or reliable
the latest claim is the only one to involve a credible witness
Other Word Forms
- credibility noun
- credibleness noun
- credibly adverb
- noncredible adjective
- noncredibleness noun
- noncredibly adverb
Etymology
Origin of credible
First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin crēdibilis, from crēd(ere) “to believe, confide, entrust” + -ibilis -ible
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Example Sentences
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“Underrate him at your peril…No chance he is going to go away unless a credible proposal is put on the table for a political transition.”
Both these leads were later ruled as not credible by the rights commission in the final report of their investigation.
From BBC
AI also can be used to clean up grammar and language, helping foreign scammers overcome language barriers that might have made their phishing attempts seem less credible in the past.
Those reforms are so nascent that not much is known about them, Dee said, and his study is one of a handful that provides a credible evaluation.
From Los Angeles Times
A slightly “wasteful” gift can be a more credible signal than cash precisely because it reveals effort.
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