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implausible

[ im-plaw-zuh-buhl ]

adjective

  1. not plausible; not having the appearance of truth or credibility:

    an implausible alibi.

    Synonyms: unbelievable, improbable, unlikely



implausible

/ ɪmˈplɔːzəbəl /

adjective

  1. not plausible; provoking disbelief; unlikely
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • imˌplausiˈbility, noun
  • imˈplausibly, adverb
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Other Words From

  • im·plausi·bili·ty im·plausi·ble·ness noun
  • im·plausi·bly adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of implausible1

First recorded in 1595–1605; im- 2 + plausible
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Example Sentences

Even professionals often struggle to avoid implausible accounts of the origins and meanings of dreams.

As the Research Affiliates authors put it, “The first part of our definition to confirm a bubble is that using a discounted cash-flow or other valuation model, we would need implausible assumptions to justify the market’s or asset’s current price.”

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These are the types of lies or false truths that seem so obviously implausible that they don’t seem designed to deceive, but rather, to signal something else.

The goal of our forecast is to figure out which scenarios are most plausible in the real world, and if you deliberately choose some implausible ones, it may be hard to know what to make of the output.

This situation makes rather implausible or unrealistic some of the proposed schemes.

It is very difficult to sit by helplessly while a friend is imprisoned for a crime that is too implausible to comprehend.

The allegation may or may not be true, but it is not implausible.

But it is implausible at best to suggest that nothing is better than something.

It seems highly implausible that the Chuck Todd Effect will ultimately decide the McConnell/Grimes sprint to the finish.

A dark-skinned man and light-skinned woman stand among a crowd, clothed chimpanzees in each of their arms—an implausible family.

This was no implausible ground for imagining that his death had some other cause than the yellow fever.

Opportunism has been characterized by the avid acceptance of wholly implausible doctrines, or by a disingenuous "realism."

Third, you print stories that give a weak and implausible scientific basis.

Larry recognized that his statement had sounded most implausible.

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