believable
believable — adjective
1. easy to accept as something that could really happen, be true, or actually exist
easy to accept as something that could really happen, be true, or actually exist, because nothing about it sounds strange, fake, or exaggerated.
Wairimu gave such a believable excuse that her mother stopped asking questions.
noun phrase: a believable excuse / story / reason
The actor's tears made the whole scene feel believable to the audience.
predicative: feel / seem / look believable
Few readers found Ines's story about the talking dog believable.
It is hardly believable that a child of seven cooked the entire meal alone.
Reviewers praised the novel because Mei, the seven-year-old narrator, sounded completely believable on every page.
- credible
more formal; common in news and legal contexts
- convincing
stresses the power to persuade, not just plausibility
- plausible
sounds reasonable on the surface, though may still be false
- realistic
matches how things actually work in real life, especially in fiction
- unbelievable
direct opposite; also used informally for 'amazing'
- implausible
more formal; used about explanations and theories
- far-fetched
suggests an idea is so unlikely it sounds silly
文法句型
find + something + believable
believable + that-clause
用法筆記
Often modified by degree adverbs such as 'hardly', 'quite', 'completely', or 'barely'. Subjects are typically things that make a claim — stories, excuses, characters, performances, figures — rather than people themselves.