implausible

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *né

Proto-Indo-European *n̥-

Proto-Italic *n̥-

Latin in-bor.

Middle English in-

English im-

English plausible

English implausible

From im- + plausible.

Adjective

implausible (comparative more implausible, superlative most implausible)

1. Not plausible; unlikely; dubious.

   Synonym: unplausible

   Antonym: plausible

   • 2008 February 17, Mark Liberman, “More on Harper”, in Language Log‎^[1], archived from the original on 26 November 2025:

     Harper finds the idea that Latin developed into the modern Romance languages too implausible to believe.

Derived terms

• implausibility
• implausibleness
• implausibly

Translations

unlikely

• Bulgarian: невероятен (bg) (neverojaten), неправдоподобен (bg) (nepravdopodoben)
• Catalan: inversemblant (ca)
• Czech: neplausibilní
• Georgian: არასარწმუნო (arasarc̣muno), არადამაჯერებელი (aradamaǯerebeli), დაუჯერებელი (dauǯerebeli), დამაჯერებლობას მოკლებული (damaǯereblobas moḳlebuli)
• German: implausibel, unplausibel (de)
• Hungarian: valószínűtlen (hu)
• Russian: невероя́тный (ru) (neverojátnyj)
• Spanish: no / poco / nada plausible, inverosímil (es)
• Swedish: osannolik (sv)