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Definitions

verisimilar

[ver-uh-sim-uh-ler] / ˌvɛr əˈsɪm ə lər /
ADJECTIVE
liable
Synonyms
STRONGEST
apt inclined prone sensitive susceptible vulnerable
WEAK
assailable attackable beatable conquerable disposed exposed given in danger penetrable subject tending vincible
Antonyms
STRONGEST
unsusceptible
WEAK
excusable freed immune irresponsible unaccountable unlikely
ADJECTIVE
likely
Synonyms
STRONGEST
acceptable expected fair feasible inclined possible prone reasonable
WEAK
achievable anticipated assuring attainable believeable conceivable conjecturable credible destined disposed favorite given to imaginable in favor of in the cards in the habit of inferable liable odds-on on the verge of ostensible plausible practicable predisposed presumable promising rational seeming subject to supposable tending thinkable true up-and-coming workable
Antonyms
STRONGEST
impossible unlikely unreasonable
WEAK
implausible inapt unforeseeable
ADJECTIVE
susceptive
Synonyms
WEAK
apt assailable attackable beatable conquerable disposed exposed given in danger inclined open penetrable prone sensitive subject susceptible tending vincible vulnerable

Example Sentences

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And there the effect is not only verisimilar but wonderful in its verisimilitude.

From The English Novel by Saintsbury, George

Various anecdotes of him are related by Boccaccio, Sacchetti, and others, none of them verisimilar, and some of them at least fifteen centuries old when revamped.

From Among My Books Second Series by Lowell, James Russell

Who does not recall the great part played in literary history by the criticism of the verisimilar?

From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Croce, Benedetto

Charming, but in no proper sense of the word natural or verisimilar.

From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver

But formerly, and especially by the theoreticians, by verisimilar was understood historical credibility, or that historical truth which is not demonstrable, but conjecturable, not true, but verisimilar.

From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Croce, Benedetto