单词 | implausible |
释义 | implausible (once / 14004 pages) 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.” WORD FAMILYimplausible: implausibility, implausibleness, implausibly+/implausibility: implausibilities/plausibility: plausibilities/plausible: implausible, plausibility, plausibleness, plausibler, plausiblest, plausibly USAGE EXAMPLESIt 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, unlikelyhaving a probability too low to inspire belief plausible apparently reasonable and valid, and truthful believable, crediblecapable of being believed arguablecapable of being supported by argument glib, pat, slickhaving only superficial plausibility |
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