What is another word for unlikely?
Synonyms for unlikely
ʌnˈlaɪk liun·like·ly
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
unlikely
Synonyms:
doubtful, dubious, improbable, unimaginableAntonyms:
apparent, likely, presumable, probable, seeming
Princeton's WordNet
improbable, unlikelyadjective
not likely to be true or to occur or to have occurred
"legislation on the question is highly unlikely"; "an improbable event"
Synonyms:
marvelous, tall(a), unbelievable, unconvincing, improbable, marvellousAntonyms:
promising, probable, apt(p), liable(p), likely, plausibleunlikelyadjective
has little chance of being the case or coming about
"an unlikely story"; "an unlikely candidate for reelection"; "a butcher is unlikely to preach vegetarianism"
Synonyms:
unbelievable, unconvincing, improbableAntonyms:
probable, liable(p), promising, apt(p), likely, plausibleimprobable, unbelievable, unconvincing, unlikelyadjective
having a probability too low to inspire belief
Synonyms:
unbelievable, improbable, marvellous, tall(a), incredible, flimsy, marvelous, unconvincingAntonyms:
plausible, promising, apt(p), probable, likely, liable(p)
Dictionary of English Synonymes
unlikelyadjective
Synonyms:
improbable
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
unlikelyadjective
Synonyms:
improbable, unpromising
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "unlikely":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#1481 | likely | |
#5642 | incredible | |
#7056 | unlikely | |
#10461 | probable | |
#15392 | unbelievable | |
#19151 | marvelous | |
#20066 | doubtful | |
#23071 | dubious | |
#27240 | improbable | |
#29587 | marvellous | |
#44059 | flimsy | |
#46658 | unimaginable | |
#56915 | implausible | |
#74245 | unconvincing |
How to use unlikely in a sentence?
We and our competitors are refilling our supply chains as rapidly as ever we can, I think we're unlikely to see anything more than very short term temporary shortages of certain products.
Even a lengthy sustained ash eruption would be very unlikely to produce enough ash to spread across the tropical zone.
Jane Austen was writing letters, in Jane Austen usual quite tiny handwriting, up to May 1817, two months before Jane Austen death. ... For this reason it seems unlikely that Jane Austen was as close to blind as the optometrist quoted on the British Library blog site suggests.
The president does punch back, and I think that it is highly unlikely that he's simply going to take incoming from his political rivals who again view this tragedy as a club by which to beat the president about the head.
Alongside much (higher) levels of capital, a much longer list of requirements have been produced and I worry that they've switched the pendulum too far...and are unlikely to address the designated problems.
Translations for unlikely
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- من غير المرجحArabic
- improbableCatalan, Valencian
- unwahrscheinlichGerman
- improbable, improbablementeSpanish
- epätodennäköisesti, epätodennäköinenFinnish
- improbablement, improbableFrench
- ní móideIrish
- improbabileItalian
- ありそうもないJapanese
- onwaarschijnlijkDutch
- improvável, improvavelmentePortuguese
- improbabilă, puțin probabil, improbabil, în mod improbabilRomanian
- вряд ли, eдва ли, навряд лиRussian
- навряд чиUkrainian
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