Ingenious vs Plausible - What's the difference?
ingenious | plausible |
Displaying genius or brilliance; tending to invent.
Characterized by genius; cleverly done or contrived.
Witty; original; shrewd; adroit; keen; sagacious.
Seemingly or apparently valid, likely, or acceptable; credible: a plausible excuse.
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Obtaining approbation; specifically pleasing; apparently right; specious.
Using specious arguments or discourse. (rfv-sense)
(obsolete) Worthy of being applauded; praiseworthy; commendable; ready.
As adjectives the difference between ingenious and plausible
is that ingenious is displaying genius or brilliance; tending to invent while plausible is seemingly or apparently valid, likely, or acceptable; credible: a plausible excuse.ingenious
English
Alternative forms
* engeniousAdjective
(en adjective)- This fellow is ingenious ; he fixed a problem I didn't even know I had.
- That is an ingenious model of the atom.
- He sent me an ingenious reply for an email.
Usage notes
Do not confuse with ingenuous.Synonyms
* See also * See alsoReferences
* *plausible
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- In short, the twin assumptions that syntactic rules are category-based, and that there are a highly restricted finite set of categories in any natural language (perhaps no more than a dozen major categories), together with the assumption that the child either knows'' (innately) or ''learns (by experience) that all rules are structure-dependent ( =category-based), provide a highly plausible model of language acquisition, in which languages become learnable in a relatively short, finite period of time (a few years).
- a plausible''' pretext; '''plausible''' manners; a '''plausible delusion
- a plausible speaker
- (Bishop Hacket)