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plausibly

plausibly adverb: in a plausible manner.

Adverb

plausibly (comparative more plausibly, superlative most plausibly)

  1. In a plausible manner.
    • She lied plausibly, but the police suspected her anyway.
    Synonyms:
    believably, credibly
  2. (modal) Probably; not falsifiably, based on available facts and general knowledge.
    • Plausibly, she said she'd been working at the time.

Examples of plausibly in a sentence

  • In canon law the loss of a nose could plausibly mean the termination of a marriage.
  • It's a long story, plausibly true, and beloved by Raleighans.
  • In any case they are not plausibly the exaggerated actors marching around the metatheory of actor-centric social science.

All 10 example sentences with plausibly

Synonyms of plausibly

Antonyms

Forms of plausibly

comparativemore plausibly
superlativemost plausibly

Origin of plausibly

From plausible + -ly.

Words formed from plausibly

Phrases with plausibly

Questions about plausibly

What does plausibly mean?
Plausibly means in a plausible manner.
What part of speech is plausibly?
Plausibly is an adverb.

Words near plausibly in the dictionary

  1. plausible deniabilities
  2. plausible deniability
  3. plausible denial
  4. plausible denials
  5. plausibleness
  6. plausibly
  7. plausibly denied
  8. plausibly denies
  9. plausibly deny
  10. plausibly denying
  11. plausive

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