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implausible

adjectiveB2+Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,183 of 15,258leans written

Implausible means too unlikely to be readily believed. An implausible excuse.

It is about believability rather than truth, so a true story can be implausible. Fiction has to avoid the implausible far more carefully than life does, since readers will not accept what actually happens.

Definitions of implausible

  1. 1adjectiveimplausibleToo unlikely to be readily believed.B2+

    “The explanation was implausible and turned out to be entirely true.”

implausible is a quality.

Where it comes from

  1. Latin

    plausibilis — deserving applause, praiseworthy, acceptable, pleasing

  2. English

    plausible

  3. English, today

    implausible

Built from

  • plaudere · Latin — to applaud

From in- + plausible. plausible comes from Latin plausibilis (“deserving applause, praiseworthy, acceptable, pleasing”), from the participle stem of plaudere (“to applaud”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

implausible in the wild

  • Farce is a form of comedy that relies on amusing and highly implausible plots, stereotyped or exaggerated characters, physical humor and misunderstandings to entertain an audience.

    Farce

  • The Big Rip is only possible if the universe contains phantom energy, a hypothetical form of dark energy with implausible physical properties.

    Big Rip

  • Feuds may last for months or even years; conversely, they may be resolved with implausible speed, perhaps during a single match.

    Feud (professional wrestling)

  • With results showing that an implausible 99.91% of voters supported the amendments, the referendum was accused of being "obviously rigged".

    1964 Ghanaian constitutional referendum

  • "Alien space bats" ("ASBs") is a neologism for plot devices used in alternate history to mean an implausible point of divergence.

    Alien space bats

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