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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
believable
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
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▪ Courageous behaviour and dogged endurance are more believable here than in many other types of adventure-story.
▪ We will be able to judge which candidate is more believable.
▪ The poem might be thought self-pitying if it were more believable.
▪ And the manslaughter charges were much more believable, and would be harder to fight.
■ NOUN
character
▪ This doesn't work with video, which is a literal medium demanding believable characters in believable situations.
▪ Stevenson, Anne Noted for her realistic, fast-paced stories, believable characters, and excellent use of dialogue.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Hardly anything they put on the news programs these days is believable.
▪ Her story is told in a straightforward, believable fashion.
▪ The plot is believable, but the characters aren't very interesting.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I promise you, Doctor, the solution is quite believable.
▪ In fact, it will make anything else you say less believable.
▪ In the opener, the action is believable, and the effects sharp.
▪ It consistently indulged in folies de grandeur - and somehow it made them believable.
▪ One of the differences between life and writing is that writing always has to be believable whereas life isn't!
▪ The movie is spectacular but believable, exciting yet cerebral.
▪ Very laudable, Leo, but hardly believable.
▪ We will be able to judge which candidate is more believable.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Believable

Believable \Be*liev"a*ble\, a. Capable of being believed; credible. -- Be*liev"a*ble*ness, n. -- Be*liev`a*bil"i*ty, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
believable

late 14c., from believe + -able. Related: Believably.

Wiktionary
believable

a. Capable of being believed; credible.

WordNet
believable

adj. capable of being believed; "completely credible testimony"; "credible information" [syn: credible] [ant: incredible]

Usage examples of "believable".

In time it would become clear to him that a true channeling would be much more compelling and believable than an agent of Satan spouting made-up scripture.

Already our sources indicate that he has reduced running costs on the Sonder Ditch by a scarcely believable two per cent.

Four years learning to be a father to Olexa as much as many more years of bardic training made the apology believable.

Her only safety was if there was never any believable connection between Miss Mandeville and the wicked Duke of St.

It might have been possible for soldiers and diplomats to pose as innocents until the middle of the 1960s, but after that time, and especially after the My Lai massacre of 16 March 1968, when serving veterans reported to their superior officers a number of major atrocities, nobody could reasonably claim to have been uninformed and of those who could, the least believable would be those who - far from the confusion of battle - read and discussed and approved the panoptic reports of the war that were delivered to Washington.

It was a weird confession, but Stolle had just enough of the details and times right to be believable.

Unlike Makepeace Smith and Hank, Dowser, who were obviously angry and malicious, Amy Sump was absolutely believable.

That movie turned out to be effective persuasive writing, precisely because the characters were so believable.

Who would have thought two nerdish archaeologists would have sized up the situation so accurately, and in an instant formulated a very believable lie?

But it was pushing the boundaries of the believable that the plump-but-pretty girl in the photo and the supersized goddess sitting across from him could be one and the same person.

During the course of these six books, I have taken the external events of some very famous lives and attempted to create rounded, believable human beings endowed with all the complexities common sense dictates they must have possessed.

On one side of the valley, to the right, and partially cov- ered from my view by the enormous rock, there was an un- believable domelike structure.

TRUE NIGHT FALLS combines SF and fantasy motifs in a believable manner.

It was a particularly believable operation given the decade of shootdowns that had just taken place.

Senator Grant, no living human being has seen a visitor from another planet, and we have no believable record that anyone in past ages saw such visitors, either.