plausible

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

used to say you are not certain
maybe"Do you want to go to the show tonight?" "Maybe. Let's see how I feel after work."
perhapsPerhaps he'll decide to join us tonight.
possiblyThere are four, possibly five people who have been injured in the explosion.
potentiallyThese potentially unsafe chemicals are present in our groundwater.
conceivablyIt would be hard, but a burglar could conceivably shut down your electronic alarm system by hacking into it.
plausiblyShe argued, rather plausibly, that her neighbour was the one who took the tools from her allotment.
Libby could not plausibly have forgotten the conversations.
There are many scenarios that one might plausibly imagine for a bio-terrorist attack.
He argued, plausibly enough, that such requirements hampered his ability to negotiate.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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

Examples of plausibly

plausibly
These controls address the potential confound of verbal intelligence, which is plausibly related to measures of linguistic awareness and to reading.
Compliance of the latter with democratically reached decisions may plausibly be thought of as one appropriate response to the value of democracy.
It is generally assumed that attentional weights are encoded in terms of firing rate modulation by top-down cortical feedback, plausibly from prefrontal cortex.
These are more plausibly the result of voicing assimilation triggered by the glottal stop, not examples of final devoicing.
Plainly it could not have achieved this exposition plausibly if it were incompatible with his general notions of political obligation.
Consequently, any structural model that could plausibly be used for monetary policy analysis should be able to account for these facts.
In that event, he could plausibly claim that his reason for cloning is not to control offspring nondisease characteristics.
But as a matter of principle, these songs were placed in contexts where singing rather than speaking could plausibly be expected of operatic characters.
For syntax, no comparable set of converging constraints has been plausibly proposed.
Plausibly even the tiniest change in the laws of nature or in the initial conditions would causally entail that stars and planets could never form.
Each side's position seems to provide about as much that could plausibly be claimed to be universal as does the other's.
In both cases, a self-sufficient pride is plausibly depicted as directing attention away from real accomplishments.
Practical questions, one might plausibly suppose, ultimately have to be answered by appeal to the basic goods.
One can plausibly trace antecedents back even further.
Plausibly, we need an account of harm that confirms that intuitive fact.
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