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What does plausible mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word plausible? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Seemingly or apparently valid, likely, or acceptable; credible
  2. Obtaining approbation; specifically pleasing; apparently right; specious.
  3. (obsolete) Worthy of being applauded; praiseworthy; commendable; ready.
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I consider that on balance, on the material before me, this explanation is plausible.
But it's pretty well informed, entirely logical, accords with what we know and were reliably informed, and is all too plausible.
Even so, its new forecast of flat prices looks plausible and matches my view.
Even though both black holes and white holes are plausible scenarios according to general relativity, there is still a crucial difference.
One cannot exactly say that this solution, though plausible and well grounded, has been accepted by subsequent scholars.
It is intuitively plausible, yet many philosophers, especially pragmatists and Wittgensteinians, reject it.

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