believable

English

Etymology

believe +‎ -able

Adjective

believable (comparative more believable, superlative most believable)

1. Capable of being believed; credible.

Synonyms

• plausible

Antonyms

• unbelievable

Related terms

• believability
• believableness

Translations

capable of being believed; credible

• Albanian: besueshëm (sq)
• Asturian: creyible, creíble
• Basque: sinesgarri
• Bulgarian: правдоподобен (bg) (pravdopodoben)
• Catalan: creïble
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 可相信的 (kě xiāngxìn de)

• Czech: uvěřitelný m
• Danish: trolig, troværdig
• Esperanto: kredebla
• Finnish: uskottava (fi)
• French: croyable (fr)
• Galician: crible (gl), críbel (gl)

• German: glaubhaft (de)
• Icelandic: trúanlegur (is) m, sennilegur (is) m
• Japanese: 信じられる (ja) (しんじられる, shinjirareru)
• Latvian: ticams
• Manx: so-chredjal
• Occitan: credible
• Portuguese: crível (pt)
• Romanian: credibil (ro)
• Russian: правдоподо́бный (ru) (pravdopodóbnyj), вероя́тный (ru) (verojátnyj)
• Spanish: creíble (es)
• Swedish: trovärdig (sv)
• Welsh: credadwy (cy)

References

• believable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• “believable” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–.