IMPLAUSIBLE


Meaning of IMPLAUSIBLE in English

adjective

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Jill says she can earn $50,000 from the job, but this is an implausible figure.

Miss Harris' experience of healing, however implausible it seems, is common in religious meetings.

The idea that a virus could wipe out an entire city so quickly seems a little implausible .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

All three of Kane's categories suffer from implausible assumptions which belong in the realms of racist folklore rather than scientific inquiry.

But in fact it seems most implausible the ether should do this.

But it indicates that the idea of allergies affecting the mind - and viceversa - is not implausible .

But the tremendous earthquakes they showed were somewhat implausible .

However, I would agree with Searle that this possibility has been rendered rather implausible , to say the least.

Moreover in many cases it is implausible .

Well, you and other men of science seem to assume two things which I find rather implausible .

While unlikely, this is not in principle altogether implausible , and so the wrong answer would be reached.

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