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Likely

adjective

(compar. likelier; superl. likeliest)

1.

Has a good chance of being the case or of coming about. "She is likely to forget" , "A likely place for a restaurant" , "The broken limb is likely to fall" , "Rain is likely" , "A likely topic for investigation" , "Likely candidates for the job"

2.

Likely but not certain to be or become true or real. Synonym: probable. "He foresaw a probable loss"

3.

Expected to become or be; in prospect. Synonym: potential.

4.

Within the realm of credibility.

adverb

1.

With considerable certainty; without much doubt. Synonyms: belike, in all likelihood, in all probability, probably. "In all likelihood we are headed for war"

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"Likely" Quotes from Famous Books

... calculable little super men who, of late, have been taking up so much more of your attention than they deserve. Students who engage in psychical research, as it is called, often confess themselves puzzled by the behaviour of ghosts, it appears to them wayward and trivial. How much more likely are ghosts to be puzzled by the actions of real men? And we are surely ghosts if we keep nothing of the blood which sent our fathers ...

— Sir John Constantine • Prosper Paleologus Constantine

... men one met wore wreaths upon their collars often; quite as likely chevrons of "the men" upon their sleeves. Cabinet ministers, poets, statesmen, artists, and clergymen even were admitted to the "Mosaics;" the only "Open sesame!" to which its doors fell wide being that patent of nobility stamped by brain ...

— Four Years in Rebel Capitals - An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death • T. C. DeLeon

... straw placed over the joints of pipes, but it seems an inconvenient and insecure practice. Long straw cannot be well placed in such narrow openings, and it is likely to sustain the earth enough, so that when thrown in, it will not settle equally around the pipes; whereas a shovelfull of gravel or other earth sifted in carefully, will at once fasten them ...

— Farm drainage • Henry Flagg French

... things will happen: either the fish—I mean Cahorn—will not bite, and nothing will happen; or, what is more likely, he will run and greedily swallow the bait. Thus, behold my Baron Cahorn imploring the assistance of one of my friends ...

— The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar • Maurice Leblanc

... merely antiquarian effort can ever give it an aesthetic value, or make it a proper subject of aesthetic criticism. This quality, wherever it exists, it is always pleasant to define, and discriminate from the sort of borrowed interest which an old play, or an old story, may very likely acquire through a true antiquarianism. The story of Aucassin and Nicolette has something of this quality. Aucassin, the only son of Count Garins of Beaucaire, is passionately in love with Nicolette, a ...

— The Renaissance - Studies in Art and Poetry • Walter Pater

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