Plausible

Adjective

 * 1) Seemingly or apparently valid, likely, or acceptable; credible: a plausible excuse.
 * 2) Worthy of being applauded; praiseworthy; commendable; ready.
 * 3) Obtaining approbation; specifically pleasing; apparently right; specious; as, a plausible pretext; plausible manners; a plausible delusion.
 * 4) Using specious arguments or discourse; as, a plausible speaker.

Derived terms

 * plausibility

Thesaurus
acceptable, admissible, apparent, apparently sound, believable, casuistic, cogent, cogitable, colorable, colored, conceivable, conceivably possible, contingent, credible, creditable, deceitful, deceptive, disingenuous, empty, fallacious, fiduciary, gilded, hollow, humanly possible, illusive, imaginable, insincere, jesuitic, just, justifiable, legitimate, likely, logical, meretricious, misleading, ostensible, overrefined, oversubtle, philosophistic, possible, potential, presentable, probable, rational, reasonable, reliable, sane, seeming, sensible, smooth, sophistic, sophistical, sound, specious, tenable, thinkable, tinsel, trustworthy, trusty, unexceptionable, unimpeachable, unquestionable, well-argued, well-founded, well-grounded, wholesome, worthy of faith

Etymology
From plausibilis:, from the participle stem of plaudere:.

Translations

 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * Manx: so-chredjallagh
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: plauzibil


 * Russian: похожий на правду, правдоподобный, вероятный, состоятельный, аргументированный, приемлемый
 * Serbo-Croatian: plauzibilan, prihvatljiv,  moguć,  vjerojatan,  verovatan
 * Swedish: ,


 * Portuguese: