believable
/bɪˈliːvəbl
/adjective
1Able to be believed; credible: she felt that Dawn’s story was not quite believable...
- Voters will respond to facts when they are presented in a compelling and believable fashion.
- It had surprised his parents so much that he'd been interested at all that they'd barely been able to come up with a believable reply.
- Whilst this sounds believable to a certain extent, I also think it's a dangerous route to take.
Synonyms
credible, plausible, likely, convincing, creditable, probable, possible, feasible, tenable, acceptable, reasonable, sound, rational, logical, within the bounds of possibility, able to hold water, with a ring of truth;
conceivable, imaginable, thinkable
1.1(Of a fictional character or situation) convincing or realistic: a drama that lacks believable characters...
- The thing to me that's fun is trying to make the characters seem believable, or realistic.
- The characters are believable as is the reason for the murders.
- The characters are believable and they enhance the feeling of realism in the story.
Derivatives
believability
- When a person reports or evaluates qualitative research, it is important to assess the findings for plausibility and believability.
- As strange as it sounds, the strength of this book lies in its believability.
- And the students portrayed their roles with believability and passion, he said.
believably
- She was a very believably shy, sweet, funny Cinderella.
- But I used to try to talk nonsense believably, you know what I mean?
- ‘I was awake the whole time,’ he said quickly, but not very believably.