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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

IMPLAUS'IBLE, a. s as z. [in and plausible.]
Not specious; not wearing the appearance of truth or credibility, and not likely to be believed; as an implausible harangue.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: having a quality that provokes disbelief; "gave the teacher an implausible excuse" [ant: plausible]
2: highly imaginative but unlikely; "a farfetched excuse"; "an implausible explanation" [syn: farfetched, implausible]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: circa 1677 not plausible ; provoking disbelief • implausibility noun • implausibly adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. not plausible. Derivatives: implausibility n. implausibly adv.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Implausible Im*plau"si*ble, a. [Pref. im- not + plausible: cf. F. implausible.] Not plausible; not wearing the appearance of truth or credibility, and not likely to be believed. ``Implausible harangues.'' --Swift. -- Im*plau"si*ble*ness, n. -- Im*plau"si*bly, adv.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you describe something as implausible, you believe that it is unlikely to be true. I had to admit it sounded like an implausible excuse... ADJ • implausibly They are, rather implausibly, close friends. ADV

Moby Thesaurus

a bit thick, a bit thin, absurd, beyond belief, debatable, doubtable, doubtful, dubious, dubitable, fishy, flimsy, hard of belief, hard to believe, hardly possible, improbable, inconceivable, incredible, more than doubtful, not deserving belief, open to doubt, open to suspicion, passing belief, preposterous, problematic, puzzling, questionable, ridiculous, staggering belief, suspect, suspicious, tall, thick, thin, unbelievable, unconvincing, unearthly, ungodly, unimaginable, unlikely, unpromising, unreasonable, unsubstantial, unthinkable, unworthy of belief, weak