implausible
not plausible; not having the appearance of truth or credibility: an implausible alibi.
Origin of implausible
1Other words for implausible
Other words from implausible
- im·plau·si·bil·i·ty, im·plau·si·ble·ness, noun
- im·plau·si·bly, adverb
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How to use implausible in a sentence
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.”
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.
‘I Won The Election’ – How Powerful People Use Lousy Lies To Twist Reality | LGBTQ-Editor | November 25, 2020 | No Straight NewsThe 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.
We’re Letting You Mess With Our Presidential Forecast, But Try Not To Make The Map Too Weird | Nate Silver (nrsilver@fivethirtyeight.com) | October 21, 2020 | FiveThirtyEightThis situation makes rather implausible or unrealistic some of the proposed schemes.
New Clues to Chemical Origins of Metabolism at Dawn of Life | John Rennie | October 12, 2020 | Quanta Magazine
It is very difficult to sit by helplessly while a friend is imprisoned for a crime that is too implausible to comprehend.
Behind Bars for the Holidays: 11 Political Prisoners We Want to See Free In 2015 | Movements.Org | December 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe allegation may or may not be true, but it is not implausible.
In Jerusalem Home Demolitions, the Biblical Justice of Revenge | Creede Newton | November 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut it is implausible at best to suggest that nothing is better than something.
Naomi Klein’s ‘This Changes Everything’ Will Change Nothing | Michael Signer | November 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt seems highly implausible that the Chuck Todd Effect will ultimately decide the McConnell/Grimes sprint to the finish.
Those Alison Lundergan Grimes Obituaries Were Premature—She’s Hanging On | Jonathan Miller | October 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTA 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.
Ormond, Volume I (of 3) | Charles Brockden BrownOpportunism has been characterized by the avid acceptance of wholly implausible doctrines, or by a disingenuous "realism."
Government in Republican China | Paul Myron Anthony LinebargerThird, you print stories that give a weak and implausible scientific basis.
Astounding Stories, February, 1931 | VariousLarry recognized that his statement had sounded most implausible.
Children of the Whirlwind | Leroy Scott
British Dictionary definitions for implausible
/ (ɪmˈplɔːzəbəl) /
not plausible; provoking disbelief; unlikely
Derived forms of implausible
- implausibility or implausibleness, noun
- implausibly, adverb
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