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Definition
apparently reasonable, but unproven- She offered a plausible excuse.
plausible = sounding reasonable
- Her theory was neat, plausible, and wrong.
- This theory, too, is plausible, but no concrete evidence exists to prove it.Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild
- It doesn't sound very plausible.Tom Stoppard -- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
- This was what gave plausibility to the whispers, that Mr. Hooper's conscience tortured him...Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Minister's Black Veil
- In one way it sounded most unlikely; in another, it was plausible enough.Albert Camus -- The Stranger
- I thought it sounded very plausible.Agatha Christie -- The ABC Murders
- The notion was so plausible that I at once accepted it, and went on to assume the "how" of this splitting of the human species.H.G. Wells -- The Time Machine
- The story was plausible, but she sensed that he was either lying or leaving something out.Nicholas Sparks -- The Lucky One
- Proofreaders do not like them, but they give a plausibility to the story.Edward E. Hale -- The Man Without a Country
- But as the months passed and I had the opportunity to ponder McCandless's death at greater length, the less plausible this consensus seemed.Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild
- But other scenarios involve potato seeds of an entirely different variety, and these scenarios are more plausible.Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild
- It is not difficult to imagine plausible causes for Waterman's instability.Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild
- It is very plausible to such people, a most convincing hypothesis.London, Jack -- Before Adam
- He was always a villain, smooth-spoken and plausible, but a dangerous, subtle villain all the same.Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan -- Beyond the City
- ...he was only gaining time for a plausible answer.Forster, E. M. -- Howards End
- This very simple explanation appeared at once plausible and satisfying.Leroux, Gaston -- The Mystery of the Yellow Room
- This was the most plausible explanation of a speech which had caused rather a startling change in his expectations.Eliot, George -- Middlemarch
- The brain of a Machiavelli could scarcely have invented a plausible reply.Oppenheim, E. Phillips -- The Vanished Messenger
- There seems, however, only one plausible way of accounting for them—and yet it is dreadful to believe in such atrocity as my suggestion would imply.Edgar Allan Poe -- The Gold-Bug
plausible = apparently reasonable, but unproven
plausible = reasonable
plausible = likely (reasonable that it would be true)
plausibility = apparent reasonableness (though unknown)
plausible = reasonable
plausible = reasonable, but unproven
plausible = apparently reasonable, but unproven
plausible = sounded reasonable on the surface (though unproven)
plausibility = apparent reasonableness (though unproven)
plausible = reasonable
plausible = reasonable
plausible = apparently reasonable, but unproven