likelier

ADJECTIVE

probable, apt, hopeful

Synonyms

STRONGEST

acceptable expected fair feasible inclined possible prone reasonable

WEAK

achievable anticipated assuring attainable believeable conceivable conjecturable credible destined disposed favorite given to imaginable in favor of in the cards in the habit of inferable liable odds-on on the verge of ostensible plausible practicable predisposed presumable promising rational seeming subject to supposable tending thinkable true up-and-coming verisimilar workable

Antonyms

STRONGEST

impossible unlikely unreasonable

WEAK

implausible inapt unforeseeable

Example Sentences

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Baker: Likelier than those home team Game 7 stats showing the Kraken with just a 42% chance.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 29, 2023

Likelier history suggests that he came later and in more orthodox fashion to take an engineering degree at London's King's College.

From Time Magazine Archive

Likelier still, nobody knew how many had been produced, much less cared.

From "1984" by George Orwell

I see no Likelier than this, which with their taste agrees; The caseine element I conceive to mean no Less than the beau ideal of the Casino.”—p.

From The Germ Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art by Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

Likelier, it had but been relegated to some mirky recess of the shop...

From Yet Again by Beerbohm, Max, Sir