unlikely
adjective
us
/ʌnˈlaɪ.kli/ uk
/ʌnˈlaɪ.kli/unlikely adjective (NOT PROBABLE)
[ + (that) ] It's pretty unlikely (that) they'll turn up now - it's almost ten o'clock.
- impossibleYou can't be at my party and at work at the same time – it's impossible!
- be out of the questionGoing on vacation under these circumstances is out of the question.
- no wayThere is absolutely no way your mother will allow that.
- inconceivableIt's inconceivable that the president didn't know about the military attack.
- unthinkableA wide-scale nuclear attack is unthinkable.
- The lack of evidence means that the case is unlikely to go to court.
- The government is unlikely to agree to the rebels' demands for independence.
- Such unpopular legislation is unlikely to be introduced before the next election.
- Let's face it, our team is most unlikely to win.
- This film is unlikely to attract large audiences unless it is given a big push in the media.
- amorphous
- be neither fish nor fowl idiom
- blurringly
- blurry
- circumstantial
- indeterminacy
- indeterminate
- indeterminately
- insecurely
- insecurity
- murky
- shakiness
- shallowly
- slippery
- spec
- squishy
- wavery
- wifty
- wishy-washy
- you never know idiom
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unlikely adjective (NOT EXPECTED)
- against the current
- anomalously
- another
- anti-conventional
- apple
- buck
- clash
- conflict
- contrast
- depart
- depart from something
- deviate
- differ
- differentiate
- disagree
- non-identity
- non-representative
- othering
- polymorphous
- rebrand
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unlikely adjective (PROBABLY NOT TRUE)
When I asked what he was doing there, he came up with some unlikely explanation.
- actual
- actuality
- actually
- all that glitters is not gold idiom
- anger
- falsely
- fantastical
- fever dream
- fictional
- fictionality
- not so much idiom
- nothing could be further from the truth idiom
- nothing could have been further from my mind/thoughts idiom
- parallel universe
- post-factual
- untrue
- untruly
- unverifiable
- urban myth
- validity