Your explanation sounds plausible, but it just doesn't hold water.
Source: tatoeba (17012)
Plausible
//ˈplɔː.zɪ.bl̩//
Synonyms for "plausible" (85 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (17)
Strong matches (26)
Related words (42)
Related word relations
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Antonyms
1 entriesderived
9 entriesrelated to
10 entriessimilar
10 entriesTranslations
76 translations across 26 languages.
Catalan
2 entries- plausible adj (likely, acceptable)
- plausible adj (worthy of being applauded)
Czech
4 entries- hodnověrný adj (likely, acceptable)
- ocenitelný adj (worthy of being applauded)
- plauzibilní adj (likely, acceptable)
- přijatelný adj (likely, acceptable)
Dutch
3 entries- aanneembaar adj (likely, acceptable)
- aannemelijk adj (likely, acceptable)
- plausibel adj (likely, acceptable)
Esperanto
4 entries- aprobebla adj (worthy of being applauded)
- kredebla adj (likely, acceptable)
- kredinda adj (likely, acceptable)
- verŝajna adj (likely, acceptable)
Estonian
4 entries- mõistlik adj (likely, acceptable)
- tõenäoline adj (likely, acceptable)
- usutav adj (likely, acceptable)
- vastuvõetav adj (likely, acceptable)
Finnish
4 entries- harhaanjohtava adj (obtaining approbation)
- pettävä adj (obtaining approbation)
- uskottava adj (likely, acceptable)
- uskottava adj (obtaining approbation)
French
1 entries- plausible adj (likely, acceptable)
Galician
4 entries- plausible adj (likely, acceptable)
- plausible adj (worthy of being applauded)
- plausíbel adj (likely, acceptable)
- plausíbel adj (worthy of being applauded)
Georgian
4 entries- დამაჯერებელი adj (likely, acceptable)
- მოსალოდნელი adj (likely, acceptable)
- სავარაუდო adj (likely, acceptable)
- შესაძლებელი adj (likely, acceptable)
German
2 entries- glaubhaft adj (likely, acceptable)
- plausibel adj (likely, acceptable)
Greek
1 entries- ευλογοφανής adj (likely, acceptable)
Hebrew
1 entries- סביר adj (likely, acceptable)
Hindi
2 entries- प्रशंसनीय adj (worthy of being applauded)
- मुमकिन adj (likely, acceptable)
Hungarian
1 entries- elfogadható adj (likely, acceptable)
Latin
1 entries- probābilis adj (likely, acceptable)
Latvian
2 entries- iespējams adj (likely, acceptable)
- ticams adj (likely, acceptable)
Macedonian
3 entries- веродостоен adj (likely, acceptable)
- веројатен adj (likely, acceptable)
- уверлив adj (likely, acceptable)
Manx
1 entries- so-chredjallagh adj (likely, acceptable)
Polish
4 entries- chwalebny adj (worthy of being applauded)
- do przyjęcia adj (likely, acceptable)
- godny pochwały adj (worthy of being applauded)
- prawdopodobny adj (likely, acceptable)
Portuguese
2 entries- plausível adj (likely, acceptable)
- plausível adj (worthy of being applauded)
Romanian
1 entries- plauzibil adj (likely, acceptable)
Russian
4 entries- аргументи́рованный adj (likely, acceptable)
- благови́дный adj (obtaining approbation)
- вероя́тный adj (likely, acceptable)
- досто́йный похвалы́ adj (worthy of being applauded)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- moguć adj (likely, acceptable)
- plauzibilan adj (likely, acceptable)
- prihvatljiv adj (likely, acceptable)
- verovatan adj (likely, acceptable)
Spanish
3 entries- plausible adj (likely, acceptable)
- plausible adj (worthy of being applauded)
- probable adj (likely, acceptable)
Swedish
2 entries- plausibel adj (likely, acceptable)
- rimlig adj (likely, acceptable)
Ukrainian
4 entries- заслуговуючий на довіру adj (obtaining approbation)
- ймовірний adj (likely, acceptable)
- правдоподібний adj (likely, acceptable)
- пристойний adj (obtaining approbation)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
A more plausible proposal is the one Leech presented in conjunction with Emmet's theory.
Source: tatoeba (29707)
What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
Source: tatoeba (426680)
This thing seems very plausible to me.
Source: tatoeba (1645707)
Showing 4 of 16 available sentences.
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