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Likely   /lˈaɪkli/   Listen
adjective
Likely  adj.  (compar. likelier; superl. likeliest)  
1.
Worthy of belief; probable; credible; as, a likely story. "It seems likely that he was in hope of being busy and conspicuous."
2.
Having probability; having or giving reason to expect; followed by the infinitive; as, it is likely to rain.
3.
Similar; like; alike. (Obs.)
4.
Such as suits; good-looking; pleasing; agreeable; handsome.
5.
Having such qualities as make success probable; well adapted to the place; promising; as, a likely young man; a likely servant.
6.
Improbable; unlikely; used ironically; as, a likely story. (informal)


adverb
Likely  adv.  In all probability; probably. "While man was innocent he was likely ignorant of nothing that imported him to know."





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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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