Credible
['kredɪb(ə)l] or ['krɛdəbl]
Definition
(adj.) appearing to merit belief or acceptance; 'a credible witness' .
(adj.) capable of being believed; 'completely credible testimony'; 'credible information' .
(adj.) (a common but incorrect usage where `credulous' would be appropriate) credulous; 'she was not the...credible fool he expected' .
Editor: Tess--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Capable of being credited or believed; worthy of belief; entitled to confidence; trustworthy.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Trustworthy, to be believed, worthy of belief, not improbable.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Probable, likely, trustworthy
ANT:Improbable, incredible, unlikely, untrustworthy
Editor: Ricky
Examples
- But then I am an imaginative man; and the butcher, the baker, and the tax-gatherer, are not the only credible realities in existence to my mind. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Yet it was scarcely credible that things had come to such a head as to indicate that Eustacia systematically encouraged him. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- If you do not find it credible you will at least be as one with me in acknowledging that it is unique, remarkable, and interesting. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- It seems hardly credible that I should not have been able to let Mr. Bruff alone, even now. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Thus restrained and simplified, it sounded more credible: I felt as I went on that Miss Temple fully believed me. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
Editor: Ricky