Antonyms for improbable
ɪmˈprɒb ə bəlim·prob·a·ble

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1. improbable

   Antonyms:
   apparent, likely, presumable, probable, seeming

   Synonyms:
   doubtful, dubious, unimaginable, unlikely

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. improbable, unlikelyadjective

   not likely to be true or to occur or to have occurred

   "legislation on the question is highly unlikely"; "an improbable event"

   Antonyms:
   likely, verisimilar, presumptive, believable, credible, probable, plausible, equiprobable

   Synonyms:
   marvelous, tall(a), unbelievable, unconvincing, unlikely, marvellous

2. improbable, unbelievable, unconvincing, unlikelyadjective

   having a probability too low to inspire belief

   Antonyms:
   equiprobable, plausible, probable, presumptive, believable, credible, verisimilar, likely

   Synonyms:
   unbelievable, marvellous, tall(a), incredible, flimsy, unlikely, marvelous, unconvincing

3. improbable, marvelous, marvellous, tall(a)adjective

   too improbable to admit of belief

   "a tall story"

   Antonyms:
   likely, believable, verisimilar, plausible, probable, credible, equiprobable, presumptive

How to use improbable in a sentence?

1. Conan Doyle:

   When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.

2. Christopher Reeve, From speech at Democratic National Convention, August 1996:

   So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

3. Oscar Wilde:

   Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

4. Joe Trippi:

   However improbable it is that Trump emerges as the nominee, I would not bet against him, he can win states with 25 percent or 30 percent of the vote.

5. Phil Lounibos:

   What Oxitec is trying to spin is that it's highly improbable that there will be negative consequences of this foreign DNA entering someone that's bitten by an Oxitec mosquito, i'm on their side, in that consequences are highly unlikely. But to say that there's no genetically modified DNA that might get into a human, that's kind of a gray matter.

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