Implausible vs Unfathomable - What's the difference?
implausible | unfathomable |
Not plausible; unlikely; dubious.
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Impossible to fathom or understand; incomprehensible.
* {{quote-news, year=2013, date=April 9, author=Andrei Lankov, title=Stay Cool. Call North Korea’s Bluff., work=New York Times
, passage=Suggestions that those leaders are irrational and their decisions unfathomable are remarkably shallow. North Korea is not a theocracy led by zealots who preach the rewards of the afterlife.}}
Difficult to penetrate.
As adjectives the difference between implausible and unfathomable
is that implausible is not plausible; unlikely; dubious while unfathomable is impossible to fathom or understand; incomprehensible.implausible
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Alternative forms
* unplausibleAdjective
(en adjective)More on Harper", Language Log ,
- Harper finds the idea that Latin developed into the modern Romance languages too implausible to believe.
unfathomable
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Adjective
(en adjective)- The sheer numbers they attacked with were unfathomable .
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