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credible

adj
/ˈkɹɛdəbl̩/

Etymology

From Middle English credible, borrowed from Middle French credible, from Latin crēdibilis (“worthy of belief”), from crēdō (“believe”); see credit.

  1. derived from crēdibilis
  2. derived from credible
  3. inherited from credible

Definitions

  1. Believable or plausible.

    • 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.

  2. Dependable, trustworthy, or reliable.

    • credible sources

  3. Authentic or convincing.

    • credible acting

The neighborhood

Derived

credibleness, credibly, discredible

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at credible. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01credible02trustworthy03trust04credit05credence06table07two-dimensional08believability09believable

A definitional loop anchored at credible. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at credible

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA