(a.) Not plausible; not wearing the appearance of truth or credibility, and not likely to be believed.
Example Sentences:
(1) Had not Jaggers summoned me to see him on the day of my majority some years later, I might have wondered at the psychological implausibility of an old woman training a child to be a psychopath, but luckily I was so caught up by the possibility of my benefactor's name being revealed that the thought quite slipped my mind.
(2) True or not, it is telling that not even Erdoğan's advocates find it implausible.
(3) He did, though, give some seriously implausible figures.
(4) Pseudo-PTSD patients were those who (1) claimed to be suffering a psychological injury (2) that was so severe that it was disabling (3) due to an experience that was entirely implausible as a candidate for PTSD criterion A in DSM-III-R and (4) scored T = 65 or higher on both PK and PS, the post-traumatic stress disorder subscales of the MMPI-2.
(5) Their arguments that in auditory perception, uniquely, we hear proximal stimulation, not its physical causal sources, is implausible.
(6) Yes, sounding on about the ethical dimension to public service can sound corny and implausible when you have ministers rubbishing the state and all its works, but you and the vast majority of your civil service colleagues are doing the job because you are idealists.
(7) Allen may be reaping the reward of keeping non-Italian press out of the first screenings (the version released in Italy has a dubbed dialogue track, which Allen is known to dislike) as he tends to get a better response from non-native critics, who are less attentive to implausible details.
(8) On the other hand, if you deny the assumption that humans are social, group-based primates with constraints, however imprecise, on their willingness to share, you find yourself having to defend some implausible positions: for example, that we should spend as much on development aid as on the NHS, or that Britain should have no immigration controls at all.
(9) All that fine talk in Cairo in 2009 may have hit all our happy notes, but now in Cairo and across the Middle East, when the US administration reiterates its hopes for strong democracy in the region, it is beyond implausible – it is insulting.
(10) The standard form of back-propagation learning is implausible as a model of perceptual learning because it requires an external teacher to specify the desired output of the network.
(11) The argument given by Segers does not avoid this implausible conclusion.
(12) Speculation that a jealous lover could have been responsible for a professional hit in the very heart of Moscow has been dismissed by Nemtsov’s friends and colleagues as implausible.
(13) Arsenal v Bayern Munich: Champions League – in pictures Read more Arsenal’s extraordinary sequence of having reaching the knockout stages in each of the last 15 seasons was straying dangerously close to being discontinued until Olivier Giroud, three minutes off the substitutes’ bench, made the most of Neuer’s misjudgment to change the complexion of this match and, in turn, Group F. Neuer had produced one save earlier in the match that will linger in the memory because of its almost implausible quality but a goalkeeper of his distinction will be aghast to have misread the trajectory of Santi Cazorla’s 77th-minute free-kick.
(14) According to The Hollywood Reporter , in this film the implausible weather event will “cause mass destruction in the nation’s capital” before tearing down the eastern seaboard.
(15) On the evening in question, Pryce had been at a university function in central London; the Crown held was that it was "implausible" that anyone other than Huhne could have been driving.
(16) Hodgson’s team attracted a certain amount of sympathy and understanding after the Italy defeat but it was beyond them to play with the same attacking panache and, if there is to be a feat of escapology, it will need an almost implausible combination of results and handouts in the final games of Group D. More realistically, they have blown it in their first week.
(17) The Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman, Vince Cable, said: "Alistair Darling has relied on implausible growth forecasts for the economy which nobody but himself believes.
(18) For Alex Salmond’s part, Alan Greenspan has described his economic forecasts as being “so implausible they should really be dismissed out of hand”.
(19) It’s profoundly implausible that any Australian prime minister would want to have a secret visit to Australian troops and, plainly, there was footage released of everything that I did yesterday, but for understandable security reasons it is difficult to get people into Iraq at the moment and it was for security reasons that I was unable to take local media in.
(20) Evidence reveals, however, that our planet is an almost unimaginably complicated beast, which reacts to a dramatically changing climate in all manner of different ways; a few – like the aforementioned – straightforward and predictable; some surprising and others downright implausible.
Unlikely
Definition:
(a.) Not likely; improbable; not to be reasonably expected; as, an unlikely event; the thing you mention is very unlikely.
(a.) Not holding out a prospect of success; likely to fail; unpromising; as, unlikely means.
(a.) Not such as to inspire liking; unattractive; disagreeable.
(adv.) In an unlikely manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) The pancreatic changes are unlikely to be an artefact, but rather a direct toxic effect of the alcohol as confirmed by the biochemical changes.
(2) This was unlike the action of the calcium channel blocker, cadmium, which reduced the calcium action potential and the a.h.p.
(3) 2.35pm: West Ham co-owner David Sullivan has admitted that a deal to land Miroslav Klose is unlikely to go through following the striker's star performances in South Africa.
(4) Unlike Milo, he appears to be – to some extent – convinced of the truth of what he’s saying.
(5) Recent studies have shown that an aberration in platelet-derived growth factor gene expression is unlikely to be a factor in proliferation of smooth-muscle cells.
(6) Their contour lengths varied from 0.28 to 51 micron, but unlike in the case of maize, a large difference was not observed in the distribution of molecular classes greater than 1.0 micron between N and S cytoplasms of sugar beet.
(7) Psychiatry unlike philosophy (with its problem of solipsism) recognizes the existence of other minds from the nonverbal communication between doctor and patient.
(8) Businesses fleeing Brexit will head to New York not EU, warns LSE chief Read more Amid attempts by Frankfurt, Paris and Dublin to catch possible fallout from London, Sir Jon Cunliffe said it was highly unlikely that any EU centre could replicate the services offered by the UK’s financial services industry.
(9) A full-scale war is unlikely but there is clear concern in Seoul about the more realistic threat of a small-scale attack on the South Korean military or a group of islands near the countries' disputed maritime border in the Yellow Sea.
(10) It is concluded that selection against insertional mutations is unlikely to be the major factor involved in the containment of element abundance.
(11) An antagonism is unlikely when ciprofloxacin is combined with one of the beta-lactams studied or with tobramycin.
(12) "Gut closure" is an unlikely explanation for these findings.
(13) This "gender identity movement" has brought together such unlikely collaborators as surgeons, endocrinologists, psychologists, psychiatrists, gynecologists, and research specialists into a mutually rewarding arena.
(14) The nature of these infiltrative foci remains uncertain; however, they are unlikely to have been of neoplastic origin and may be due to interleukin-2-induced lymphocytic infiltration.
(15) Unlike results seen in the goldfish optic nerve, injury to the rat optic nerve induced no observable increase in laminin content or change in its distribution.
(16) Unlikely, he laughs: "We were founded on the idea of distributing information as far as possible."
(17) Unlike most birds of prey, which are territorial and fight each other over nesting and hunting grounds, the hen harrier nests close to other harriers.
(18) And this has opened up a loophole for businesses to be morally bankrupt, ignoring the obligations to its workforce because no legal conduct has been established.” Whatever the outcome of the pending lawsuits, it’s unlikely that just one model will work for everybody.
(19) Unlike unattenuated virus, the Us3::pgC-lacZ recombinant caused little apparent damage to normal hippocampal morphology.
(20) Unlike thiorphan, 5 nmol RB38A alone was able to inhibit [3H]DAGO binding by 60%.