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Implausible   /ɪmplˈɔzəbəl/   Listen
Implausible

adjective
1.
Having a quality that provokes disbelief.
2.
Highly imaginative but unlikely.  Synonym: farfetched.  "An implausible explanation"



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"Implausible" Quotes from Famous Books



... was proposed to grant five subsidies, a proportion (how contemptible soever in respect of the pressures now every day imposed) never before heard of in Parliament. And that meeting being, upon very unpopular and implausible reasons immediately dissolved, those five subsidies were exacted throughout the whole kingdom with the same rigour as if in truth an act had passed to that purpose. And very many gentlemen of prime quality, in all the counties, were ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Vol XII. - Modern History • Arthur Mee
... elected a new government pursuant to that constitution. Iraqis may become so sobered by the prospect of an unfolding civil war and intervention by their regional neighbors that they take the steps necessary to avert catastrophe. But at the moment, such a scenario seems implausible because the Iraqi people and their leaders have been slow to demonstrate the capacity or will ...
— The Iraq Study Group Report • United States Institute for Peace


Words linked to "Implausible" :   unlikely, plausible, unbelievable, improbable, farfetched, implausibility, incredible, unconvincing, implausibleness


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