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单词 implausible
释义
implausible
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adj

Something that's implausible is farfetched or unlikely. If it's 3pm and you still have to study for three exams and write an essay before midnight, it’s implausible that you’ll also have time to watch a movie.
The adjective implausible breaks down into im, meaning “not,” and "plausible," meaning likely. So it simply means "not likely." Implausible ideas or stories usually get high marks for creativity, but they're just too crazy to be believable. But as philosopher Rene Descartes noted, “One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.”
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implausible: implausibility, implausibleness, implausibly+/implausibility: implausibilities/plausibility: plausibilities/plausible: implausible, plausibility, plausibleness, plausibler, plausiblest, plausibly
USAGE EXAMPLES
It seems implausible that she will refashion herself as a hawk a la Clinton.
Washington Post(Dec 16, 2016)
Graves makes a reasonable case that the three million figure is so high as to be implausible on its face.
Wall Street Journal(Nov 29, 2016)
Some of these are more implausible than others.
The Guardian(Nov 27, 2016)
1adj highly imaginative but unlikely
an implausible explanation
Syn
farfetched
unlikely
has little chance of being the case or coming about
2adj having a quality that provokes disbelief
gave the teacher an implausible excuse
Syn|Ant
incredible, unbelievable
beyond belief or understanding
improbable, unbelievable, unconvincing, unlikely
having a probability too low to inspire belief
plausible
apparently reasonable and valid, and truthful
believable, credible
capable of being believed
arguable
capable of being supported by argument
glib, pat, slick
having only superficial plausibility
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