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Implausible

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Difficult to believe; not plausible.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Not plausible; unlikely; dubious.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Not plausible; not wearing the appearance of truth or credibility, and not likely to be believed.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Not plausible; not having the appearance of truth or credibility; of dubious aspect.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. having a quality that provokes disbelief

adj. highly imaginative but unlikely

Word Usage

"But Bridge undercuts his credibility by describing early childhood and later events in implausible and gratuitous detail, including pages of line-by-line dialogue."

Equivalent

unconvincing unbelievable unlikely improbable

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

plausible

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

irreconcileable impractical unrealistic improbable chimerical unproved farfetched stagey inaccurate untenable