UNLIKELY


Meaning of UNLIKELY in English

(unlikeliest)

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

If you say that something is ~ to happen or ~ 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 ~...

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

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

In the ~ 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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