believable
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English bilevable, beleevable, equivalent to believe + -able.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /bɪˈliːvəbl̩/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Adjective
[edit]believable (comparative more believable or (rare) believabler, superlative most believable or (rare) believablest)
- Capable of being believed; credible.
- believable answer
- believable account
- believable story
- 1953 February, American Water Works Association, “Percolation and Runoff”, in Journal, volume 45, number 2, Denver, Colo., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 40, columns 1–2:
- So far as cartoons are concerned these days, nothing—not even sewage works—is sacred, and everything is thereby readabler and believabler.
- 1974 November 8, Robert LaBrasca, “‘Streetcar’ good show despite poor staging”, in The Capital Times, volume 115, number 126, Madison, Wis., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 14, column 1:
- Blanche’s quavering voice and fluttering hands are indispensable elements that make it easy for her to be played in a pat and stiff manner, but Fischer has tapped deeper qualities in this acutely neurotic but tragic antiheroine to make her not only believabler, but sympathetic as well.
- 2013, Paddy Duffy, “Introduction”, in Did That Actually Happen? A Journey Through Ridiculous Moments in Irish Politics, Dublin: Hachette Books Ireland, →ISBN, page 1:
- Like Dr Crane, I too dreamt of the day when I might see my name staring back at me in Easons, and it’s scarcely believable that the day has come. Even scarcerly believabler is the way it came about.
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[edit]Translations
[edit]capable of being believed; credible
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References
[edit]- “believable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “believable”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
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