plausible

US: /ˈpɫɔzəbəɫ/

UK: /plˈɔːzəbə‍l/


English - Vietnamese dictionary

plausible /'plɔ:zəbl/
  • tính từ
    • có vẻ hợp lý, có vẻ đúng (lời nói, lý lẽ)
      • a plausible argument: một lý lẽ có vẻ hợp lý
    • nói có vẻ ngay thẳng; nói có vẻ đáng tin cậy (người)

Advanced English dictionary

+ adjective
1 (of an excuse or explanation) reasonable and likely to be true: Her story sounded perfectly plausible. + The only plausible explanation is that he forgot.
Antonym: IMPLAUSIBLE
2 (disapproving) (of a person) good at sounding honest and sincere, especially when trying to trick people: She was a plausible liar.
plausibility noun [U]: This new evidence lends plausibility to the theory that she was murdered.
plausibly adverb: He argued very plausibly that the claims were true.

Thesaurus dictionary

adj.
1 likely, believable, reasonable, credible, tenable, conceivable, thinkable, probable, imaginable, admissible, sound, sensible, rational, logical, acceptable, trustworthy, presentable:
The police regarded our alibi as plausible.
2 specious, deceptive, meretricious, misleading, deceitful, casuistic, sophistical, Jesuitical, smooth, empty:
He was a cunning, plausible sort of fellow.

Collocation

VERBS

be, seem, sound | make sth | find sth, judge sth, think sth
He did not think it plausible that all the differences could be explained in this way.

ADV.

extremely, highly, terribly, very | entirely, perfectly, quite
a perfectly plausible theory
| not remotely
There was no way the story could be made to sound even remotely plausible.
| barely, hardly | reasonably | superficially | intuitively, psychologically
This explanation fits the facts and is psychologically plausible.


Concise dictionary

'plɔːzəbl
adj.
+apparently reasonable and valid, and truthful
+given to or characterized by presenting specious arguments

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