Thesaurus / unlikelihood
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synonyms for unlikelihood
- also-ran
- long shot
- sleeper
- underdog
- hundred-to-one shot
- improbability
- little chance
- little opportunity
- outside chance
- outside shot
- poor bet
- poor lookout
- poor possibility
- poor prognosis
- poor prospect
- slim chance
- small chance
- stalking horse
- unexpected winner
- unknown
- unknown quantity
- unlikely winner
- upsetter
- futility
- contrariety
- difficulty
- failure
- impracticability
- impracticality
- unfeasibility
- unattainability
- unreasonableness
- unworkability
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How to use unlikelihood in a sentence
This brings us to the difficult point of the degree or kind of unlikelihood one may risk in such a story.
LITERATURE IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLPORTER LANDER MACCLINTOCKAnd if the young man's manner had not suggested the unlikelihood of his return, a hint to that effect was conveyed by his clothes.
THE DIVINE FIREMAY SINCLAIRBut it is none the less worth while to consider how the unlikelihood can be made to approach most nearly to a certainty.
BEFORE THE WARVISCOUNT RICHARD BURTON HALDANEIt was in vain that they pointed out that there had been no pursuit thus far, and the unlikelihood of there being one.
THE RED ACORNJOHN MCELROYNicky was crowning his unlikelihood by refraining from the slightest allusion to the event.
THE CREATORSMAY SINCLAIRHe didn't puzzle on the extreme unlikelihood of a doe halting in her flight from a cougar.
THE VOICE OF THE PACKEDISON MARSHALLThe priori likelihood or unlikelihood of a Kelt-iberic mixture.
THE ETHNOLOGY OF EUROPEROBERT GORDON LATHAMAnd when she realized the unlikelihood of any opportunity for satisfaction, she was exasperated to the limit of self-control.
THE CONTINENTAL DRAGOONROBERT NEILSON STEPHENSThe more so when one considers the extreme unlikelihood of the same being made tolerable in colour at Berlin.
ARTS AND CRAFTS ESSAYSVARIOUSThe scene on which we have just been gazing will show us the utter unlikelihood of such a supposition.
SEEKERS AFTER GODFREDERIC WILLIAM FARRARWORDS RELATED TO UNLIKELIHOOD
- also-ran
- hundred-to-one shot
- improbability
- little chance
- little opportunity
- long shot
- outside chance
- outside shot
- poor bet
- poor lookout
- poor possibility
- poor prognosis
- poor prospect
- sleeper
- slim chance
- small chance
- stalking horse
- underdog
- unexpected winner
- unknown
- unknown quantity
- unlikelihood
- unlikely winner
- upsetter
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.