Adjective: plausible
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more plausible |
| Superlative | most plausible |
Sample Sentences
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a plausible excuse
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In short, the twin assumptions that syntactic rules are category-based, and that there are a highly restricted finite set of categories in any natural language (perhaps no more than a dozen major categories), together with the assumption that the child either knows (innately) or learns (by experience) that all rules are structure-dependent ( =category-based), provide a highly plausible model of language acquisition, in which languages become learnable in a relatively short, finite period of time (a few years). [1988, Andrew Radford, Transformative Grammar: A First Course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 64:]
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Russian SPETSNAZ are irregular forces that operate covertly, providing the Russian government plausible deniability. [2014, “Little Green Men”: A Primer on Modern Russian Unconventional Warfare, Ukraine 2013–2014, Fort Bragg, North Carolina: The United States Army Special Operations Command, page 43:]
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a plausible pretext; plausible manners; a plausible delusion
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capable of receiving a plauſible Anſwer [1693, John Hacket, Scrinia reserata: a Memorial offered to the great Deservings of John Williams:]
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[…] a coachman named Richard, who was described as a "sensible, well-behaved yellow boy, who is plausible and can read and write." [1955, William H. Townsend, Lincoln and the Bluegrass: Slavery and Civil War in Kentucky:]
Adjectives inflected like plausible
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Latin plausibilis (“deserving applause, praiseworthy, acceptable, pleasing”), from the participle stem of plaudere (“to applaud”). See: Latin Adjectives '
plausibilis'.