Adjective: credible
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more credible |
| Superlative | most credible |
Sample Sentences
-
credible alibi
-
think up a credible excuse
-
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:]
-
credible sources
-
credible acting
Adjectives inflected like credible
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Middle English credible, borrowed from Middle French credible, from Latin crēdibilis (“worthy of belief”), from crēdō (“believe”); see credit. See: Latin Adjectives '
crēdibilis'.