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# implausible

«implausible» in Mova's school dictionary: **Hard to believe; not likely to be true** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (implausible, more implausible); adverb «implausibly»

### meaning for a pupil

1) Hard to believe; not likely to be true. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/implausible/#m1)

2) Not reasonable or realistic: an implausible plan. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/implausible/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In English lessons pupils judge whether a story's events are plausible or implausible; in history and science they check whether a claim fits the evidence. In everyday life, an implausible excuse is one nobody believes. Phrases: an implausible excuse, an implausible story, it seems implausible that.

### examples

- «The dog ate my homework» is an implausible excuse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/implausible/#x1)
- It is implausible that a snail could win a race against a horse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/implausible/#x2)
- The film's ending was so implausible that we laughed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/implausible/#x3)
- The detective found the man's story implausible. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/implausible/#x4)
- Your plan to dig to Australia is a bit implausible. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/implausible/#x5)
- It seems implausible, but it's true: a bee can't see the colour red. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/implausible/#x6)

### note

Opposite: «plausible» (believable). «Implausible» does not mean «impossible»: an implausible thing could happen but probably did not. In probability words: impossible < unlikely/implausible < possible < likely < certain.

### Trees and pragmatics

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