PLAUSIBLE


Meaning of PLAUSIBLE in English

adjective

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a likely/plausible scenario

The more likely scenario is that support for the group will wane.

a plausible/convincing story

She tried to think up a convincing story to tell her parents.

a reasonable/plausible excuse (= one that other people will believe )

If your train was cancelled, that is a perfectly reasonable excuse.

a reasonable/plausible explanation (= one that is easy to believe )

Pilot error is the most plausible explanation for the crash.

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■ ADVERB

less

As we shall see in Chapter 2, this claim has now become less plausible and less acceptable.

more

Unless some one more plausible comes forward, therefore, the challenge is likely to have two results.

Indeed, our scenarios are nothing more than invitations to everyone to write better, more plausible , even more desirable outcomes.

Therefore, word sequences that are grammatically acceptable are considered to be more plausible than word sequences that are grammatically unacceptable.

I found imagining myself as a bond salesman only marginally more plausible than imagining myself as a bond trader.

Hence, a political economy of the urban is scarcely more plausible now than it has ever been in the past.

It looks more plausible to play 21 ... d8 and then invade on d4 with a knight.

A more plausible alternative was the renovation of existing buildings, some of which had originally been solid structures.

most

There were other possibilities but for the moment these seemed the most plausible .

His name was Sinon, and he was a most plausible speaker.

The reader can decide which of the possible explanations is the most plausible .

It was the one where the reassurance of the central tradition might seem to be most plausible .

The most plausible explanation is that pauses are used by a speaker for planning what to say next.

Even if she had the most plausible answers, there still would be folks wishing Clinton would continue to take political pratfalls.

The market clearing paradigm is reasonably robust and the Rational Expectations assumption is here most plausible .

The most plausible explanation of this observation is an abrupt, massive, global acidification of rainwater.

quite

It is of course quite plausible that the principle of monetary judgments applied in formulary procedure.

Thus it is quite plausible to suggest that see evokes some form of inference here.

Standing on these dramatic cliffs, the legends of the area seem quite plausible .

Miracle in the figurative sense, since although we do not know how cells evolved, quite plausible scenarios have been proposed.

very

This reply sounds very plausible , until one reflects on it; and then a serious difficulty emerges.

I shall try to show that neither of them is very plausible .

This is certainly a very plausible alternative explanation for the demise of the Daily Herald.

But for other experiments the interpretation seems very plausible .

Cusack is a very plausible Rob, hangdog, clever, alienated, mopey and dopey.

But efforts to work out this atomistic society in detail are not very plausible .

But Preston had thought that very plausible at the time.

The second was surely never very plausible , and has now been generally abandoned.

■ NOUN

case

But it is quite possible to think of plausible cases .

excuse

No. 17. finding the plausible excuse Think of some situation where one needs tact and diplomacy.

explanation

Try processing all the relevant information contained in the problem to help you come up with one plausible explanation .

But that scenario presented geophysicists with a radical yet plausible explanation for the anti-continents.

There is only one really plausible explanation .

The most plausible explanation of this observation is an abrupt, massive, global acidification of rainwater.

Coalition mongering is the only plausible explanation .

Thus, the observer effect is not a plausible explanation of the phenomenon.

Convincing them otherwise would take double-blind trials and a plausible explanation of how the sensitivity might arise.

The most plausible explanation is that pauses are used by a speaker for planning what to say next.

scenario

This, too, is a plausible scenario .

Miracle in the figurative sense, since although we do not know how cells evolved, quite plausible scenarios have been proposed.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

His explanation sounds fairly plausible to me.

I need to think of a plausible excuse for not going to the meeting.

Langham's story sounded plausible at the time.

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Although she is pretend-reading and she guesses what the print probably says rather than decoding the print, her story sounds plausible .

But it is quite possible to think of plausible cases.

In any plausible way of forming Jupiter the hydrogen and helium are initially well mixed at a molecular level.

In comparison with fabliaux like that, the misbehaviour of the monk and the wife is all too deliberate and plausible .

Students may well differ in how plausible they find efficient-market theory.

The most plausible explanation of this observation is an abrupt, massive, global acidification of rainwater.

Where the medium is not continuous on the scale of the measurement being made the assumption is not so plausible .

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