What does implausible mean?
Definitions for implausible
ɪmˈplɔ zə bəlim·plau·si·ble
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Princeton's WordNet
implausibleadjective
having a quality that provokes disbelief
"gave the teacher an implausible excuse"
farfetched, implausibleadjective
highly imaginative but unlikely
"a farfetched excuse"; "an implausible explanation"
Wiktionary
implausibleadjective
Not plausible; unlikely; dubious.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Implausibleadjective
Not specious; not likely to seduce or persuade.
Etymology: in and plausible.
Nothing can better improve political school-boys than the art of making plausible or implausible harangues against the very opinion for which they resolve to determine. Jonathan Swift.
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implausible
Implausible refers to something that is not seeming reasonable, likely or probable to be true or accurate. It pertains to situations, ideas or statements that are difficult to believe due to lack of credibility, logic or evidence.
Webster Dictionary
Implausibleadjective
not plausible; not wearing the appearance of truth or credibility, and not likely to be believed
Etymology: [Pref. im- not + plausible: cf. F. implausible.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Implausible
im-plawz′i-bl, adj. not plausible, incredible.—n. Implausibil′ity.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of implausible in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of implausible in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of implausible in a Sentence
He was kind of fringe, he had no job and lived on the margins. He was eccentric. A vacation seemed very implausible.
Juries are told,' Elie Honig can use common sense, folks. Elie Honig can use the good everyday judgment Elie Honig use out there in the real world,' and I think it's just absolutely unbelievable and implausible that Ghislaine Maxwell herself was somehow Ghislaine Maxwell or somehow didn't realize what was going on.
They are down more than U.S. stocks. If U.S. equities go higher, it would seem very implausible that other markets would not participate in the rally even more.
We do need to ask that question, there is evidence from animal studies that it is not implausible.
Now it turns out that the Trump administration may have an equally implausible conspiracy on its hands : Is the administration involved in child sex trafficking or just white nationalism ? Follow me down the rabbit hole and see for yourself.
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