different between plausible vs inviting

English

Etymology

From Latin plausibilis (“deserving applause, praiseworthy, acceptable, pleasing”), from the participle stem of plaudere (“to applaud”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?pl??z.?.b?l/, /?pl??z.?.b?l/

Adjective

plausible (comparative more plausible, superlative most plausible)

1. Seemingly or apparently valid, likely, or acceptable; conceivably true or likely

   • 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).

2. Obtaining approbation; specifically pleasing; apparently right; specious.

   a plausible pretext; plausible manners; a plausible delusion

3. (obsolete) Worthy of being applauded; praiseworthy; commendable; ready.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Bishop Hacket to this entry?)

   • 1955, Lincoln and the Bluegrass: Slavery and Civil War in Kentucky

     […] a coachman named Richard, who was described as a "sensible, well-behaved yellow boy, who is plausible and can read and write."

Derived terms

• plausible deniability
• plausibility
• plausibly

Translations

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin plausibilis.

Adjective

plausible (masculine and feminine plural plausibles)

1. plausible

Derived terms

• plausiblement

Further reading

• “plausible” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “plausible” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “plausible” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “plausible” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

From Latin plausibilis.

Pronunciation

Adjective

plausible (plural plausibles)

1. plausible

Further reading

• “plausible” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Adjective

plausible m or f (plural plausibles)

1. plausible

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin plausibilis.

Adjective

plausible (plural plausibles)

1. plausible

Further reading

• “plausible” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?va?t??/
• Rhymes: -a?t??
• Hyphenation: in?vit?ing

Adjective

inviting (comparative more inviting, superlative most inviting)

1. Alluring; tempting; attractive.

Derived terms

Verb

inviting

1. present participle of invite

Noun

inviting (plural invitings)

1. invitation

References

• inviting in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• inviting in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.