Implausible
adjective
Something that is hard to believe or unlikely to be true.
His alibi seemed implausible to the police.
Often appears as...
- completely implausible
- utterly implausible
adjective
Something that is hard to believe or unlikely to be true.
His alibi seemed implausible to the police.
Often appears as...
- completely implausible
- utterly implausible
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Context Matters
Consider the situation or storyline when deciding if something is implausible.
The time travel plot in the movie was implausible given the realistic setting.
Pro Tip 2/3Degree of Unlikeliness
'Implausible' doesn't mean impossible, but it suggests that something is very hard to believe.
His explanation for the lost money was implausible but not impossible.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Tone
Using 'implausible' can express skepticism or doubt about someone's statement or story.
Her excuse for being late was so implausible that I couldn't help laughing.
Pro Tip 1/3Context Matters
Consider the situation or storyline when deciding if something is implausible.
The time travel plot in the movie was implausible given the realistic setting.
Pro Tip 2/3Degree of Unlikeliness
'Implausible' doesn't mean impossible, but it suggests that something is very hard to believe.
His explanation for the lost money was implausible but not impossible.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Tone
Using 'implausible' can express skepticism or doubt about someone's statement or story.
Her excuse for being late was so implausible that I couldn't help laughing.
Pro Tip 1/3Context Matters
Consider the situation or storyline when deciding if something is implausible.
The time travel plot in the movie was implausible given the realistic setting.
Pro Tip 2/3Degree of Unlikeliness
'Implausible' doesn't mean impossible, but it suggests that something is very hard to believe.
His explanation for the lost money was implausible but not impossible.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Tone
Using 'implausible' can express skepticism or doubt about someone's statement or story.
Her excuse for being late was so implausible that I couldn't help laughing.
Compare with
absurdconceivabledoubtfulimprobablelikelypreposterousquestionableridiculous
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Charles Hazlewood:...
I only wish that some of those musicians were here with us today, so you could see at firsthand how utterly extraordinary they are. Paraorchestra is the name of that project. If any of you thinks you want to help me in any way to achieve what is a fairly impossible and implausible dream still at this point,
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Depression, the secret...
These people who are sort of at the very bottom rung of society and then they get a few months of treatment and they're virtually ready to run Morgan Stanley? It's just too implausible." She said, "I've never even heard of anything like it." And I said, "The fact that you've never heard of it
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Noah Feldman: Politics...
which was fear. Fear is not an implausible reaction with a war just around the corner and with a very, very high likelihood that many, many people are going to die as a consequence of this confrontation -- a confrontation which many, many people in the Muslim world do not want,
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Trusting the ensemble -...
I only wish that some of those musicians were here with us today's you could see it firsthand how utterly extraordinary they are peril or kissers the name of that project if any of you thinks you want to help me in any way to achieve what is a fairly impossible implausible
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Ed Yong: Suicidal wasps,...
But given the widespread nature of such manipulations, it would be completely implausible for humans to be the only species that weren't similarly affected. And I think that this capacity to constantly subvert our way of thinking about the world makes parasites amazing.
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The 4 stories we tell...
using the vocabulary of their day. Now, the first story is the simplest. We want to avoid death, and the dream of doing that in this body in this world forever is the first and simplest kind of immortality story, and it might at first sound implausible,
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What we learn before...
the earliest ones and so your answer to my question would be learning begins at birth well today I want to present to you an idea that may be surprising that may even seem implausible but which is supported by the latest evidence from
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Annie Murphy Paul: What...
are the earliest ones. And so your answer to my question would Learning begins at birth. Well today I want to present to you an idea that may be surprising and may even seem implausible, but which is supported by the latest evidence
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What Wikipedia Teaches...
the things that made Wikipedia implausible are actually what prepare it to respond to our changing world. And make it a place that people love and trust. And so one of the things about it, of course,
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Seal Commuters PIPE...
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Charles Hazlewood:...
I only wish that some of those musicians were here with us today, so you could see at firsthand how utterly extraordinary they are. Paraorchestra is the name of that project. If any of you thinks you want to help me in any way to achieve what is a fairly impossible and implausible dream still at this point,
Video examples
Depression, the secret...
These people who are sort of at the very bottom rung of society and then they get a few months of treatment and they're virtually ready to run Morgan Stanley? It's just too implausible." She said, "I've never even heard of anything like it." And I said, "The fact that you've never heard of it
Video examples
Noah Feldman: Politics...
which was fear. Fear is not an implausible reaction with a war just around the corner and with a very, very high likelihood that many, many people are going to die as a consequence of this confrontation -- a confrontation which many, many people in the Muslim world do not want,
Video examples
Trusting the ensemble -...
I only wish that some of those musicians were here with us today's you could see it firsthand how utterly extraordinary they are peril or kissers the name of that project if any of you thinks you want to help me in any way to achieve what is a fairly impossible implausible
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Ed Yong: Suicidal wasps,...
But given the widespread nature of such manipulations, it would be completely implausible for humans to be the only species that weren't similarly affected. And I think that this capacity to constantly subvert our way of thinking about the world makes parasites amazing.
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The 4 stories we tell...
using the vocabulary of their day. Now, the first story is the simplest. We want to avoid death, and the dream of doing that in this body in this world forever is the first and simplest kind of immortality story, and it might at first sound implausible,
Video examples
What we learn before...
the earliest ones and so your answer to my question would be learning begins at birth well today I want to present to you an idea that may be surprising that may even seem implausible but which is supported by the latest evidence from
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Annie Murphy Paul: What...
are the earliest ones. And so your answer to my question would Learning begins at birth. Well today I want to present to you an idea that may be surprising and may even seem implausible, but which is supported by the latest evidence
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What Wikipedia Teaches...
the things that made Wikipedia implausible are actually what prepare it to respond to our changing world. And make it a place that people love and trust. And so one of the things about it, of course,
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Seal Commuters PIPE...
metre long great white shark it sounds you know a little implausible very valid field can't be wrong
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Quote examples
Rob Thomas
American Producer
Reading 'Youth in Revolt' might have ruined my career because suddenly I wanted to abandon all the emotional truth of something and just go out far on a literary limb with completely implausible things that relied completely on voice and humor. And what saved me is realizing that I couldn't do that very well.
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Michael Moritz
Welsh Businessman
All you need do is listen to very smart people and sift out the ideas that are unworthy or implausible, and I wouldn't pretend for a moment that I hadn't made lots of mistakes and there are companies, perhaps, that we had been investors in.
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Marcia Angell
American Editor
There is something so biologically implausible that your attitude is going to cure a disease. There's a tremendous arrogance to imagine that your mind is all that powerful.
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Candice Millard
American Writer
More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.
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John Conyers
American Politician
Some of the ideas that come from the fringe of the far right are just so implausible that it is hard to take those ideas seriously.
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Alan Watts
English Philosopher
The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.
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Rene Descartes
French Mathematician
One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.
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Ron Fournier
American Journalist
Anything may be possible in America, but a Palin presidency is virtually implausible.
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Michael Wolff
American Author
It's not implausible that Donald Trump could have been a successful President.
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Jimmy Carr
English Comedian
A surprising amount of my jokes sound very implausible but are true.
Quote examples
Rob Thomas
American Producer
Reading 'Youth in Revolt' might have ruined my career because suddenly I wanted to abandon all the emotional truth of something and just go out far on a literary limb with completely implausible things that relied completely on voice and humor. And what saved me is realizing that I couldn't do that very well.
Quote examples
Michael Moritz
Welsh Businessman
All you need do is listen to very smart people and sift out the ideas that are unworthy or implausible, and I wouldn't pretend for a moment that I hadn't made lots of mistakes and there are companies, perhaps, that we had been investors in.
Quote examples
Marcia Angell
American Editor
There is something so biologically implausible that your attitude is going to cure a disease. There's a tremendous arrogance to imagine that your mind is all that powerful.
Quote examples
Candice Millard
American Writer
More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.
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John Conyers
American Politician
Some of the ideas that come from the fringe of the far right are just so implausible that it is hard to take those ideas seriously.
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Alan Watts
English Philosopher
The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.
Quote examples
Rene Descartes
French Mathematician
One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.
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Ron Fournier
American Journalist
Anything may be possible in America, but a Palin presidency is virtually implausible.
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Michael Wolff
American Author
It's not implausible that Donald Trump could have been a successful President.
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Jimmy Carr
English Comedian
A surprising amount of my jokes sound very implausible but are true.
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