likelier

adjprobable, apt, hopeful

Word Origin & History

c.1300, perhaps from Old Norse likligr "likely," from likr "like" (see like (adj.)). Old English had cognate geliclic. Meaning "having the appearance of being strong and capable" is from mid-15c., though now mostly confined to American English; according to OED this sense is perhaps influenced by like (v.). Sense of "good-looking" is from late 15c. Meaning "probably" is attested from late 14c., now principally in American English.

As an adverb, late 14c., from the adjective.

Example Sentences for likelier

It is an unlikely hypothesis, but I cannot suggest a likelier.

You saw at a glance which was the likelier man of the two, when they stood opposed.

I thought it unlikely, and yet likelier than that it should have come from an individual.

I never see a likelier lot of rats than what that first haul was.

It's time somebody younger an' likelier to live longer should know.

Try both: of the two, she was likelier to be going to Southampton.

Joy of all eyes and pride of life Perhaps she is not; the likelier wife!

The idea made him laugh, and he answered: 'Anything is likelier than that!'

Were it not likelier that in that case he would have turned into a worm?

That they were Seriform is the likelier doctrine of the two.

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