unlikely
IPA: ʌnɫˈaɪkɫi
noun
- Something or somebody considered unlikely.
adjective
- Not likely; improbable; not to be reasonably expected.
- Not holding out a prospect of success; likely to fail; unpromising.
adverb
- In an improbable manner.
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Examples of "unlikely" in Sentences
- Our only quibble is her choice of the word "unlikely."
- And still: in 2011, the term "unlikely" doesn't quite carry the weight it used to.
- Furthermore, "the Enlightenment" was a term unlikely to be applied to a wanted criminal.
- So remember when you're feeling very small and insecure, how amazingly unlikely is your birth.
- One thing I hate to hear, and I hate to hear it even more when it comes from strippers themselves, is the term unlikely stripper.
- The lack of ideologically charged cases also makes this term unlikely to provide much evidence of the alleged conservative ascendency.
- With every game, every precision pass and every clever drive to the basket, Lin is raising expectations, altering the Knicks' fate and redefining the word "unlikely."
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