plausible

CEFRC1

/ˈplɔː.zɪ.bl̩/

adjective

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adjective
Seeming reasonable and likely to be true.
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adjective
Extra detail
Obtaining approbation; specifically pleasing; apparently right; specious.

Examples

A more plausible proposal is the one Leech presented in conjunction with Emmet's theory.
Your explanation sounds plausible, but it just doesn't hold water.

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meanings

Worthy of being applauded; praiseworthy; commendable; ready.
Seemingly or apparently valid, likely, or acceptable; conceivably true or likely.

In context

a plausible pretext; plausible manners; a plausible delusion
a plausible excuse
Russian SPETSNAZ are irregular forces that operate covertly, providing the Russian government plausible deniability.

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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...
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
capable of receiving a plauſible Anſwer
1693, John Hacket, Scrinia reserata: a Memorial offered to the great Deservings of John Williams
[…] 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

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From Latin plausibilis (“deserving applause, praiseworthy, acceptable, pleasing”), from the participle stem of plaudere (“to applaud”).