unlikely

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.

Equivalents

12 more languages

Bosanskinevjerojatan

Ελληνικάαπίθανος

Suomiepätodennäköinen

हिन्दीअसंभव

Hrvatskinevjerojatan

Italianoimprobabile

日本語ありそうもないそうにない

Portuguêsimprovável

Русскиймаловероятный

Српскиnevjerojatan

Svenskaosannolik

Українськамалоймовірнийнавряд чинеправдоподібний

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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