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Presumed vs Plausible - What's the difference?

presumed | plausible |

As adjectives the difference between presumed and plausible

is that presumed is appearing to be the most probable, often with some preparations starting to be made for it while plausible is seemingly or apparently valid, likely, or acceptable; credible: a plausible excuse.

As a verb presumed

is past tense of presume.

presumed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (presume)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • appearing to be the most probable, often with some preparations starting to be made for it.

    • Anagrams

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    plausible

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Seemingly or apparently valid, likely, or acceptable; credible: a plausible excuse.
  • *
    • 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).
  • Obtaining approbation; specifically pleasing; apparently right; specious.
    • a plausible''' pretext; '''plausible''' manners; a '''plausible delusion
  • Using specious arguments or discourse. (rfv-sense)
    • a plausible speaker
  • (obsolete) Worthy of being applauded; praiseworthy; commendable; ready.
    • (Bishop Hacket)

    Derived terms

    * plausibility