Plausible vs Accessible - What's the difference?
plausible | accessible |
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.
Easy of access or approach; approachable.
Easy to get along with.
Open to the influence of.
* Minds accessible to reason. - (Thomas Babington Macaulay)
Obtainable; to be got at.
* The best information ... at present accessible . - (Thomas Babington Macaulay)
(art, literature) Easily understood.
Capable of being used or seen.
As adjectives the difference between plausible and accessible
is that plausible is seemingly or apparently valid, likely, or acceptable; credible: a plausible excuse while accessible is easy of access or approach; approachable.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)
Derived terms
* plausibilityaccessible
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- an accessible town or mountain