Meaning of unlikely | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Implausible, unlikely.
2. Not likely; improbable; not to be reasonably expected.
3. Not holding out a prospect of success; likely to fail; unpromising.

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Examples

“It is pretty unlikely that you'll win, but I will pray that at least you do well.”

“In the highly unlikely event of landing in water, lifejackets are stored under the seat.”

“Now, I still think that for this box of matches to have escaped the wear of time for immemorial years was a strange, and for me, a most fortunate thing. Yet oddly enough I found here a far more unlikely substance, and that was camphor.”

“The Saturday evening Cardiff-West Wales mail train is still steam-worked, but a most unlikely locomotive used on May 23 was Stanier Class 5 4-6-0 No. 45250 (5A); it returned on May 25 with a train of steel billets.”

“Saturday’s tariffs are unlikely to be Trump’s last. The president said himself said in the Oval Office that additional tariffs could come by mid-February on chips, pharmaceuticals, steel, aluminum, copper, oil and gas imports – along with tariffs on the European Union – all threats that few would discount given his willingness to follow through on the North American and China tariffs on Saturday.”

“Nor had the post mortem on Newson's body revealed any illness or other physical condition that might have prevented him from applying the brake, although after four days in the oven-like heat of the wreckage, the body was so badly decomposed as to make any reliable post mortem results unlikely.”

“unlikely means”

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