| 单词 | credibility |
| 释义 | credibility (once / 1843 pages) n You have credibility when you seem totally trustworthy or believable. You lose it when you start lying, cheating and acting rather shady. Credibility is a noun that speaks to plausibility or believableness, so the star witness at your trial or the person writing your recommendation letter should certainly have it. Be careful though, because someone with credibility isn't necessarily telling the truth. As any con man or politician can tell you, credibility can easily come from nothing more than a confident smile. WORD FAMILYcredibility: credibilities+/credible: credibility, credibleness, crediblest, credibly, incredible/incredibility: incredibilities/incredible: incredibility, incredibleness, incredibly USAGE EXAMPLESThen larger news organisations report what is happening on social media and add credibility to the story without fact-checking. BBC(Dec 29, 2016) Rare is the Marine who does not wish to shoot better; a culture that celebrates riflery bestows credibility and respect on those who shoot best. New York Times(Dec 28, 2016) This access would let attackers steal personal information, divert frequent flyer benefits or use the data to lend credibility to phishing attacks. BBC(Dec 28, 2016) n the quality of being believable or trustworthy Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper believability, credibleness incredibility, incredibleness the quality of being incredible authenticity, genuineness, legitimacy undisputed credibility cogency, rigor, rigour, validitythe quality of being valid and rigorous plausibility, plausiblenessapparent validity cred, street cred, street credibilitycredibility among young fashionable urban individuals real McCoy, real stuff, real thinginformal usage attributing authenticity reasonableness, tenability, tenablenessthe quality of being plausible or acceptable to a reasonable person quality an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone |
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