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

Likelier 'e's drove away, than that 'e's one as wishes 'e could drive.

From The Old Flute-Player A Romance of To-day by Hare, J. Knowles

A dozen paces 'twixt the most and least expert Make a dwarf a giant's equal: nay, the dwarf, if he's alert, Likelier hits the broader target!'

From Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning by Clarke, Helen Archibald