What does implausible mean?
Word: Implausible
Part of Speech: Adjective
Meaning: Implausible means not seeming reasonable or likely to be true.
How do you spell implausible?
Syllables: im - plau - si - ble
Tricky part: Many pupils write able here, because the two endings sound the same, but this word takes ible.
Watch out for: implausable, implausibel, implausabel
Memory tip: Anything implausible sounds almost impossible, and those two words finish alike.
Implausible in a sentence
Example 1: The plot became more implausible with every chapter, yet I could not stop reading.
Example 2: A century ago, video calls would have sounded implausible to most people.
Example 3: It seems implausible that one small team could paint the whole school in a day.
Fun Fact
The root is a Latin verb for clapping. Something plausible was once worth clapping for, which is a long way from its meaning today.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Makeup
Only one of these words takes the prefix im. Choose it.
a) visible
b) responsible
c) plausible
d) legible
Show answer
c) plausible. Legible takes il, responsible takes ir and visible takes in.
Mingle-Mangle
The jumbled word in the sentence hides a real word. Choose it:
Cars that fold into suitcases seemed lsumiplebia to every engineer in the room.
a) implausible
b) plausibly
c) impassable
d) impeccable
Show answer
a) implausible. A u and an m together point to one option, since no other has both.
Word Connection
Choose the antonym of the word implausible as used in the sentence:
Rohit's tale of a talking parrot that could solve sums sounded implausible to the class teacher.
a) absurd
b) credible
c) improbable
d) far-fetched
Show answer
b) credible. The teacher doubts the tale; only credible describes a story you can accept.
Spell-o-Spell
Only one word in the list is misspelt. Choose the meaning of that word.
1. vaccuum 2. implausible 3. jewellery 4. symmetry
a) too odd to be accepted as true
b) rings, necklaces and bracelets that you wear
c) a space that has no air in it
d) the exact matching of two halves
Show answer
c) a space that has no air in it. Vacuum has two u's and one c, the reverse of what is printed.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which claim would most people find implausible?
a) Our cat finished my maths homework
b) Our teacher marked my maths homework
c) My uncle helped with my maths homework
d) My sister checked my maths homework
Show answer
a) Our cat finished my maths homework
2. A science teacher calls a pupil's conclusion implausible. What will she probably do next?
a) Print it for display
b) Send it to every school
c) Give it the top mark
d) Ask for better evidence
Show answer
d) Ask for better evidence
