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implausible, a.|ɪmˈplɔːzɪb(ə)l|
[f. im-2 + plausible.]
†1. Not worthy of applause; personally unacceptable. Obs.
1602Warner Alb. Eng. Epit., After his death him seuerally succeeded..his two Sons, Harold and Hardy Knought: Either of them implausible and burdenous to the English.
2. Not having the appearance of truth, probability, or acceptability; not plausible.
a1677Barrow Serm. (1683) II. xxvi. 369 By so impotent, so implausible and improbable means. 1730Swift Vind. Ld. Carteret Wks. 1761 III. 190 Nothing can better improve political schoolboys than the art of making plausible or implausible harangues against the very opinion for which they resolve to determine. 1788G. Campbell Four Gosp. (1807) II. 84 This, though not implausible, is mere conjecture. 1794Burke Petit. Unitarians Wks. 1842 II. 475 When they mingle a political system with their religious opinions, true or false, plausible or implausible. 1971Nature 5 Feb. 408/1 It is implausible that such animals should have preceded in time the small and structurally different species Hipparion nagriensis Hussain. 1974Daily Tel. 20 Feb. 13/2 The play was..a highly stagey and implausible piece.
Hence imˈplausibleness, implausibility; imˈplausibly adv., not plausibly.
1818Todd, Implausibly. 1846Worcester, Implausibleness. Dr. Allen. 1894Yellow Bk. I. 75 That which is already fair is complete, it may be urged—urged implausibly. 1928Music & Lett. July 234 Men..able to..write categorically though implausibly. 1965Chicago Tribune 10 Aug., The principal river..was variously named Konomick, Killamick, Calamick and sundry other versions which some claim, implausibly, meant ‘white beaver’. |