Unlikely

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Not likely; improbable.
  • adj. Not promising; likely to fail.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Not likely; improbable; not to be reasonably expected; as, an unlikely event; the thing you mention is very unlikely. Not holding out a prospect of success; likely to fail; unpromising; as, unlikely means.
  • ad. In an improbable manner.
  • n. Something or somebody considered unlikely.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Not likely; improbable; not to be reasonably expected
  • adj. Not holding out a prospect of success; likely to fail; unpromising.
  • adj. Not such as to inspire liking; unattractive; disagreeable.
  • ad. In an unlikely manner.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Such as cannot be reasonably expected; improbable: as, an unlikely event.
  • Not holding out a prospect of success or of a desired result; likely to fail; unpromising.
  • Not calculated to inspire liking or affection; not likable or lovable.
  • In an unlikely manner; with no or little likelihood; improbably.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. not likely to be true or to occur or to have occurred
  • adj. having a probability too low to inspire belief
  • adj. has little chance of being the case or coming about
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    supposed    implausible    last    farfetched    remote    outside   
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