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likely
adjective as in probable, apt, hopeful
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- 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
adverb as in probably
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Example Sentences
“I'm deeply suspicious obviously because he went to China,” said the man-most-likely-to-accuse-you-of-being-a-spy, Dick Cheney.
If not, then what happens to his case that Romney would be less-likely to spark a war with Iran?
All these most-likely-innocent people, subjected to such hard looks.
The 50 likely-votes would be targeted by the right and face howling pressure.
Hillary Clinton and John Edwards seemed doomed to risk their presidencies on a likely-to-fail big bang health-care initiative.
But it is no use digging here; it was full five-and-twenty miles from here the likely-looking place.
He was a likely-lookin' chap enough, but very dark-complected an' sallow-like, with a bad eye, showin' a lot o' the white.
The feller said to him, seein' me drive up: 'That's a putty likely-lookin' hoss.
My idea is, said David, that we get the Argo and sail round the island till we sight a likely-looking cliff.
It was a grand place for birds' nests, and we made very slow progress as we poked about, peering into every likely-looking spot.
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On this page you'll find 131 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to likely, such as: acceptable, expected, fair, feasible, inclined, and possible.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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