believable

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
17
Words With Friends
22
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/bɪˈliːvəbl̩/
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/bɪˈliːvəbl̩/ · /bi-/ · /bə-/

Definition of believable

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Capable of being believed; credible.
    “believable answer”
    “believable account”
    “believable story”
    “So far as cartoons are concerned these days, nothing—not even sewage works—is sacred, and everything is thereby readabler and believabler.”
    “Blanche’s quavering voice and fluttering hands are indispensable elements that make it easy for her to be played in a pat and stiff manner, but Fischer has tapped deeper qualities in this acutely neurotic but tragic antiheroine to make her not only believabler, but sympathetic as well.”

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Etymology

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

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