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plausible
English
Etymology
From Latin plausibilis (“deserving applause, praiseworthy, acceptable, pleasing”), from the participle stem of plaudere (“to applaud”)
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?pl??z.?.b?l/, /?pl??z.?.b?l/
Adjective
plausible (comparative more plausible, superlative most plausible)
- Seemingly or apparently valid, likely, or acceptable; conceivably true or likely
- In short, the twin assumptions that syntactic rules are category-based, and that there are a highly restricted finite set of categories in any natural language (perhaps no more than a dozen major categories), together with the assumption that the child either knows (innately) or learns (by experience) that all rules are structure-dependent ( =category-based), provide a highly plausible model of language acquisition, in which languages become learnable in a relatively short, finite period of time (a few years).
- Obtaining approbation; specifically pleasing; apparently right; specious.
- a plausible pretext; plausible manners; a plausible delusion
- (obsolete) Worthy of being applauded; praiseworthy; commendable; ready.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Bishop Hacket to this entry?)
- 1955, Lincoln and the Bluegrass: Slavery and Civil War in Kentucky
- […] a coachman named Richard, who was described as a "sensible, well-behaved yellow boy, who is plausible and can read and write."
Derived terms
- plausible deniability
- plausibility
- plausibly
Translations
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin plausibilis.
Adjective
plausible (masculine and feminine plural plausibles)
- plausible
Derived terms
- plausiblement
Further reading
- “plausible” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “plausible” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “plausible” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “plausible” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French
Etymology
From Latin plausibilis.
Pronunciation
Adjective
plausible (plural plausibles)
- plausible
Further reading
- “plausible” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle French
Adjective
plausible m or f (plural plausibles)
- plausible
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin plausibilis.
Adjective
plausible (plural plausibles)
- plausible
Further reading
- “plausible” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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reliable
English
Etymology
From Scottish raliabill, itself from to rely + -able
Pronunciation
- enPR: r?-l???-b?l, IPA(key): /???la??b?l/
- Rhymes: -a??b?l
Adjective
reliable (comparative more reliable, superlative most reliable)
- Suitable or fit to be relied on; worthy of dependence, reliance or trust; dependable, trustworthy
- 1855, Andrews Norton, Internal Evidences of the Genuineness of the Gospels
- a reliable witness to the truth of the miracles
- February 18, 1800, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Report on Mr. Pitt's Speech in Parliament of February 17, 1800, on the Continuance of the War with France (published in The Morning Post)
- the best means, and the most reliable pledge, of a higher object
- According to General Livingston's humorous account, his own village of Elizabethtown was not much more reliable, being peopled in those agitated times by unknown, unrecommended strangers, guilty-looking Tories, and very knavish Whigs.
- 1855, Andrews Norton, Internal Evidences of the Genuineness of the Gospels
- (signal processing, of a communication protocol) Such that either a sent packet will reach its destination, even if it requires retransmission, or the sender will be told that it didn't
Synonyms
- secure
- dependable
- trustworthy
- trusty
Antonyms
- unreliable
Derived terms
- reliableness
- reliably
- semireliable
Related terms
- reliability
- reliance
- rely
Translations
See also
- Reliability on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Noun
reliable (plural reliables)
- Something or someone reliable or dependable
- the old reliables
Translations
Anagrams
- Abrielle, Bellaire, lieberal
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