plausible as an adjective: - 1
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plausible
adjective
1 plausible
Apparently reasonable and credible, and therefore convincing.
Roget 472:
probable,
likely,
hopeful,
to be expected,
in a fair way.
plausible,
specious,
ostensible,
colorable,
ben trovato [It],
well-founded,
reasonable,
credible,
easy of belief,
presumable,
presumptive,
apparent.
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Roget 477:
intuitive,
instinctive,
impulsive;
independent of reason,
anterior to reason;
gratuitous,
hazarded;
unconnected.
unreasonable,
illogical,
false,
unsound,
invalid;
unwarranted,
not following;
inconsequent,
inconsequential;
inconsistent;
absonous†,
absonant†;
unscientific;
untenable,
inconclusive,
incorrect;
fallacious,
fallible;
groundless,
unproved;
non sequitur [Lat.],
it does not follow.
deceptive,
sophistical,
jesuitical;
illusive,
illusory;
specious,
hollow,
plausible,
ad captandum [Lat.],
evasive;
irrelevant
etc.
10.
weak,
feeble,
poor,
flimsy,
loose,
vague.
irrational;
nonsensical
etc.
(absurd)
497.
foolish
etc.
(imbecile)
499;
frivolous,
pettifogging,
quibbling;
finespun†,
overrefined†.
at the end of one's tether,
au bout de son latin.
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Roget 544:
false,
deceitful,
mendacious,
unveracious,
fraudulent,
dishonest,
faithless,
truthless,
trothless;
unfair,
uncandid;
hollow-hearted;
evasive;
uningenuous,
disingenuous;
hollow,
sincere,
Parthis mendacior;
forsworn.
artificial,
contrived;
canting;
hypocritical,
jesuitical,
pharisaical;
tartuffish;
Machiavelian;
double,
double tongued,
double faced,
double handed,
double minded,
double hearted,
double dealing;
Janus faced;
smooth-faced,
smooth spoken,
smooth tongued;
plausible;
mealy-mouthed;
affected
etc.
855.
collusive,
collusory;
artful
etc.
(cunning)
702;
perfidious
etc.
940;
spurious
etc.
(deceptive)
545;
untrue
etc.
546;
falsified
etc.
v.;
covinous.
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Roget 931:
approving
etc.
v.;
in favor of;
lost in admiration.
commendatory,
complimentary,
benedictory†,
laudatory,
panegyrical,
eulogistic,
encomiastic,
lavish of praise,
uncritical.
approved,
praised
etc.
v.;
uncensured,
unimpeached;
popular,
in good odor;
in high esteem
etc.
(respected)
928;
in favor,
in high favor.
deserving of praise,
worthy of praise
etc.
n.;
praiseworthy,
commendable,
of estimation;
good
etc.
648;
meritorious,
estimable,
creditable,
plausible,
unimpeachable;
beyond all praise.
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Roget 933:
flattering
etc.
v.;
adulatory;
mealy-mouthed,
honey-mouthed;
honeyed;
smooth,
smooth-tongued;
soapy,
oily,
unctuous,
blandiloquent†,
specious;
fine-spoken,
fair spoken;
plausible,
servile,
sycophantic,
fulsome;
courtierly†,
courtier-like.
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Roget 937:
vindicated,
vindicating
etc.
v.;
exculpatory;
apologetic.
excusable,
defensible,
pardonable;
venial,
veniable†;
specious,
plausible,
justifiable.
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2 plausible
Given to or characterized by presenting specious arguments.
Moby thesaurus: acceptable, admissible, apparent, apparently sound, believable, casuistic, cogent, cogitable, colorable, colored, conceivable, conceivably possible, contingent, credible, creditable, deceitful, deceptive, disingenuous, empty, fallacious, fiduciary, gilded, hollow, humanly possible, illusive, imaginable, insincere, jesuitic, just, justifiable, legitimate, likely, logical, meretricious, misleading, ostensible, overrefined, oversubtle, philosophistic, possible, potential, presentable, probable, rational, reasonable, reliable, sane, seeming, sensible, smooth, sophistic, sophistical, sound, specious, tenable, thinkable, tinsel, trustworthy, trusty, unexceptionable, unimpeachable, unquestionable, well-argued, well-founded, well-grounded, wholesome, worthy of faith ... show more.
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