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# believable

«believable» in Mova's school dictionary: **Easy to believe; seeming true or possible** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (believable, more believable, most believable); opposite unbelievable

### meaning for a pupil

1) Easy to believe; seeming true or possible. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/believable/#m1)

2) (of a character in a story or film) Seeming like a real person. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/believable/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In reading and writing lessons: a believable character, a believable excuse. In judging answers and news: is the claim believable? In safety, scams try to sound believable. Phrases: hardly believable, a believable story.

### examples

- Her excuse was not very believable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/believable/#x1)
- The actor made the character believable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/believable/#x2)
- It's a believable story, but is it true? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/believable/#x3)
- Scammers make their messages look believable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/believable/#x4)
- Write a believable ending for the story. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/believable/#x5)
- His explanation sounded believable to the teacher. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/believable/#x6)

### note

Spelling: believe drops the e: believ-able. Opposite: unbelievable, which in everyday speech also means amazing (That goal was unbelievable!). Believable does not mean true; something can sound believable and still be false.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «believable» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/believable/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.