believable

English

Etymology

From Middle English bilevable, beleevable, equivalent to believe +‎ -able.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɪˈliːvəbl̩/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

believable (comparative more believable, superlative most believable)

1. Capable of being believed; credible.

Synonyms

• plausible

Antonyms

• unbelievable

Derived terms

• believably
• believeableness

 

Translations

capable of being believed; credible

• Albanian: besueshëm (sq)
• Asturian: creyible, creíble
• Basque: sinesgarri
• Bulgarian: правдоподобен (bg) (pravdopodoben)
• Catalan: creïble (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 可相信的 (kě xiāngxìn de)

• Czech: uvěřitelný (cs) m
• Danish: trolig, troværdig
• Esperanto: kredebla, kredinda
• Finnish: uskottava (fi)
• French: croyable (fr)
• Galician: crible (gl), críbel (gl)
• Georgian: სარწმუნო (sarc̣muno), დასაჯერებელი (dasaǯerebeli), მოსალოდნელი (mosalodneli)
• German: glaubhaft (de)
• Hungarian: hihető (hu)
• Icelandic: trúanlegur (is), sennilegur (is)
• Irish: sochreidte
• Japanese: 信じられる (ja) (しんじられる, shinjirareru)
• Latin: crēdibilis (la)
• Latvian: ticams
• Macedonian: у́верлив (úverliv), веро́јатен (verójaten)
• Malayalam: വിശ്വസനീയമായ (viśvasanīyamāya), വിശ്വസനീയ (ml) (viśvasanīya)
• Manx: so-chredjal
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: troverdig (no)

• Occitan: credible
• Portuguese: crível (pt)
• Romanian: credibil (ro)
• Russian: правдоподо́бный (ru) (pravdopodóbnyj), вероя́тный (ru) (verojátnyj)
• Spanish: creíble (es)
• Swedish: trovärdig (sv)
• Turkish: inandırıcı (tr)
• Welsh: credadwy (cy)

References

• “believable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “believable”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.