probable
IPA: prˈɑbʌbʌɫ
noun
- Something that is likely.
- A person who is likely to appear or do a certain thing.
adjective
- Likely or most likely to be true.
- Likely to happen.
- Supporting, or giving ground for, belief, but not demonstrating.
- (obsolete) Capable of being proved.
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Examples of "probable" in Sentences
- The probable cause was malnutrition.
- This is the probable name of the painter.
- Just over 100 have been deemed carcinogens, 59 are called probable carcinogens, and 266 others are possible ones.
- There probable is a lot of reason that she wantto get out of being governor, but we will not know until years from now.
- It's really early to speculate on the final cause and the federal investigators will spend weeks, months, who knows how long it will take before they'll come up with what they call probable cause.
- _comparatively_ probable, when after hearing all the reasons and all the authorities on the other side, the said opinion still remains _not unlikely_, which is all that we mean to say of an opinion here, when we call it _probable_.
- That's why we're reporting that we have what we call probable developed producing because those -- that additional 4% recovery that's associated with Phases 1 and 2 that have been developed, all the money invested and they're now in the producing status.
- ATP and its independent third party reservoir engineers use the term "probable" to describe volumes of reserves potentially recoverable through additional drilling or recovery techniques that, by their nature, are more speculative than estimates of proved reserves.