credible
adj/ˈkɹɛdəbl̩/
Etymology From Middle English credible, borrowed from Middle French credible, from Latin crēdibilis (“worthy of belief”), from crēdō (“believe”); see credit.
1
Believable or plausible.
- credible alibi
- think up a credible excuse
2 more examples
- While WMRE makes clear that electrification is the only credible option to decarbonise, it says that bi-mode trains could be used in the interim.2022 December 28, Philip Haigh, “Building the case for West Midlands rail improvements”, in RAIL, number 973, page 25:
- What society classifies as “credible” is almost always a product of whichever social demographic happens to be economically dominant at the time of the classification.2022, Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties, New York: Penguin Press, →ISBN:
2
Dependable, trustworthy, or reliable.
- credible sources
3
Authentic or convincing.
- credible acting
- Antonyms
- incredible, noncredible, uncredible
- Derived terms
- credible messenger, credibleness, credibly, discredible
- Related terms
- credibility, credit, credence, credential, street cred