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likelier
adjective as in probable, apt, hopeful
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- 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
Example Sentences
In 2004, Bush-Cheney voters were much likelier to believe their vote was counted accurately.
He now appears likelier to repeat the mistakes of Iraq rather than learn from them.
However, after the struggle in Paris, Gano was convinced that London was the likelier place for him to find a footing.
It was a crazy thing to attempt; he was much likelier to get under the pilot than to succeed; yet he tried it.
The former seems the likelier interpretation, the destruction of the Swine being a fitting punishment for their owners.
Who likelier to be a witness to such a will than the Prince's chaplain?
An upset adolescent girl is a hell of a lot likelier to fake phenomena that produce them.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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