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| Main Entry: | conceivable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | reasonable, easy to understand |
| Synonyms: | believable, convincing, credible, earthly, imaginable, likely, mortal, possible, probable, thinkable, supposable |
| Antonyms: | difficult, inconceivable, unbelievable, unimaginable, unreasonable, unthinkable |
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| Main Entry: | believable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | trustworthy |
| Synonyms: | aboveboard, acceptable, authentic, conceivable, convincing, credible, creditable, fiduciary, honest-to-God*, imaginable, impressive, likely, persuasive, plausible, possible, presumable, presumptive, probable, rational, reasonable, reliable, satisfying, straight, tenable, tried, trusty, unquestionable, up front, colorable, credential, supposable |
| Antonyms: | inconceivable, incredible, unconvincing, unreliable, unthinkable, unbelieveable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | comprehensible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | understandable |
| Synonyms: | clear, coherent, conceivable, explicit, intelligible, knowable, lucid, luminous, plain, apprehensible, comprehendible, fathomable, graspable |
| Antonyms: | exclusive, incomplete, unintelligible, nonunderstandable |
| Main Entry: | credible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | believable |
| Synonyms: | aboveboard, conceivable, conclusive, creditable, dependable, honest, imaginable, likely, plausible, possible, probable, probably, rational, reasonable, reliable, satisfactory, satisfying, seeming, sincere, solid, sound, straight, tenable, thinkable, trustworthy, trusty, up front, valid, colorable, determinative, honest to God, supposable |
| Notes: | credible means 'believable' and credulous means 'gullible' |
| Antonyms: | implausible, impossible, improbable, inconceivable, incredible, unbelievable, unimaginable, unlikely, untenable |
| Main Entry: | imaginable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | believable, possible |
| Synonyms: | calculable, comprehensible, conceivable, convincing, credible, likely, plausible, sensible, thinkable, apprehensible, conjecturable, supposable, under the sun |
| Antonyms: | impossible, improbable, incomprehensible, unimaginable, unthinkable, unbelieveable |
| Main Entry: | likely |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | probable, apt, hopeful |
| Synonyms: | acceptable, achievable, anticipated, attainable, conceivable, credible, destined, disposed, expected, fair, favorite, feasible, given to, imaginable, inclined, liable, ostensible, plausible, possible, practicable, predisposed, presumable, promising, prone, rational, reasonable, seeming, subject to, tending, thinkable, true, up-and-coming*, workable, assuring, believeable, conjecturable, in favor of, in the cards, in the habit of, inferable, odds-on, on the verge of, supposable, verisimilar |
| Antonyms: | implausible, inapt, unforeseeable, unlikely |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | maybe |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | possibly |
| Synonyms: | conceivable, credible, feasible, obtainable, perhaps, as it may be, can be, conceivably, could be, imaginably, it could be, might be, perchance, weather permitting |
| Antonyms: | certainly, definitely, surely |
| Main Entry: | operable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | possible |
| Synonyms: | achievable, conceivable, feasible, obtainable, practicable, serviceable, viable, workable, doable, realizable |
| Main Entry: | plausible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | reasonable, believable |
| Synonyms: | conceivable, credible, creditable, likely, logical, persuasive, possible, presumable, probable, smooth, sound, tenable, valid, like enough, supposable, very likely |
| Antonyms: | implausible, improbable, unbelievable, unlikely, unreasonable |
| Main Entry: | possible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | likely, attainable |
| Synonyms: | accessible, achievable, adventitious, advisable, available, breeze*, cinch, conceivable, credible, dependent, desirable, dormant, duck soup*, easy as pie*, expedient, feasible, fortuitous, hopeful, hypothetical, imaginable, indeterminate, latent, obtainable, piece of cake*, potential, practicable, probable, promising, pushover*, setup, snap, thinkable, uncertain, viable, welcome, workable, can do, doable, no sweat, realizable, simple as ABC, within reach |
| Antonyms: | impossible, unlikely, unattainable, ungettable, unrealizable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | potential |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | promising |
| Synonyms: | budding, conceivable, dormant, embryonic, future, hidden, imaginable, implied, inherent, latent, likely, lurking, plausible, possible, probable, quiescent, thinkable, undeveloped, abeyant, prepatent, unrealized, within realm of possibility |
| Antonyms: | helpless, impossible, lacking, unpromising |
| Main Entry: | thinkable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | believable, feasible |
| Synonyms: | comprehensible, conceivable, convincing, imaginable, likely, possible, practicable, practical, presumable, reasonable, cogitable, comprehendible, supposable, within realm of possibility, within the limits |
| Antonyms: | impossible, inconceivable, unbelievable, unfeasible, unlikely, unthinkable |
| Main Entry: | arguable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tenable |
| Synonyms: | believable, conceivable, credible, defensible, feasible, imaginable, rational, reasonable, supportable, viable, workable, able to hold water, assertable, defendable, maintainable, sustainable |
| Antonyms: | untenable |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | possibility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
subject, accessible, achievable, apt to, at the mercy of, attainable, compatible, compossible, conceivable, contingent, credible, dependent on, exposed to, feasible, in danger, in posse, incident to, incidental, liable, magari, obnoxious to, obtainable, on the cards, on the dice, open to, peradventure, performable, possible, practicable, superable, surmountable, tessarian, unexempt from, within range of, within reach, within the bounds of possibility
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