UNLIKELY


Meaning of UNLIKELY in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ʌnlaɪkli ]

( unlikeliest)

Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.

If you say that something is unlikely to happen or unlikely to be true, you believe that it will not happen or that it is not true, although you are not completely sure.

A military coup seems unlikely...

As with many technological revolutions, you are unlikely to be aware of it...

It’s now unlikely that future parliaments will bring back the death penalty...

In the unlikely event of anybody phoning, could you just scribble a message down?

≠ likely

ADJ : usu v-link ADJ , oft ADJ to-inf , it v-link ADJ that

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