unbelievable(UNLIKELY)

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Believable
barely credible
believably
colourable
convincing
convincingly
credible
credibly
plausibility
plausible
plausible deniability
plausibly
shallow
shallowly
thinkable
true to life
unconvincingly

believable | American Dictionary

believable
adjective
us/bɪˈli·və·bəl/
belonging to a type that seems real; realistic:
a believable character/plot/story

Examples of believable

believable
So even if natural theology is intellectually unsatisfactory, religion may still be believable and rational.
This is accorded greater importance in designing believable agents and autonomous robots.
A believable agent is one able to show (even, maybe, to feel?) emotions and one which has a definite personality.
The architectural challenges in building believable agents lie in the integration of a large set of shallow capabilities.
These approaches are contrasted with architectural issues of recent agent-based work, including software agents, softbots, believable agents, as well as commercial agent-based systems.
What is not scientifically knowable might still be rationally believable.
In contrast, insecure individuals share an inability to fully integrate early memories in a coherent and believable manner.
Results of variety trials are believable when generated in small research plots.
The imaginative application of the narrative mode leads instead to good stories, gripping drama, believable (though not necessarily 'true') historical accounts.
By fusing world view and ethos, symbols give to a set of social values an appearance of objectivity and make them more believable.
However, other readings will also be of interest, notably, 'it is believed that' and 'it is rationally believable that'.
Clearly, the first man's claim that he had just ended up in the same town was not a sustainably believable one at this point.
I also have a lot more confidence in understanding how to make the character believable.
But we are just at the beginning of understanding when a sensorimotor experience is natural and believable for a performer.
This gives an average rate more believable than each individual verb-rate that went into it.
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