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adjective

Likely adj. (compar. likelier; superl. likeliest)

Worthy of belief; probable; credible; as, a likely story. "It seems likely that he was in hope of being busy and conspicuous."

Having probability; having or giving reason to expect; followed by the infinitive; as, it is likely to rain.

Similar; like; alike. (Obs.)

Such as suits; good-looking; pleasing; agreeable; handsome.

Having such qualities as make success probable; well adapted to the place; promising; as, a likely young man; a likely servant.

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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Etymology of 'Likely'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Likely" Quotes from Famous Books

... the old Don engaged special trains in which we flew about the Republic faring sumptuously everywhere, and on our return there would generally be a dinner-party, followed by the theatre or the opera—a magnificent house and performance—and as likely as not a ball after that. Much more of it would have killed ...

— A Queen's Error • Henry Curties

... Reading.—In the first paragraph of the lesson, notice the places marked below () where words are likely to be run together in reading, and avoid making ...

— New National Fourth Reader • Charles J. Barnes and J. Marshall Hawkes

... all the British North American provinces. He declared that unless a union were effected, the provinces would inevitably drift into the United States. He proposed that questions relating to education and likely to arouse religious dissension, ought to be left to the provinces. The resolutions moved by Mr. Galt in 1858 give him a high place among the promoters of confederation. Galt was asked by Sir Edmund Head to form an administration on the resignation of the Brown government. ...

— George Brown • John Lewis

... to expose Haskers!" declared the shipowner's son, who was not likely to forget how he had suffered at the hands of the former teacher of Oak Hall. "We'll go to this Mr. Fordham and tell him just ...

— Dave Porter in the Gold Fields - The Search for the Landslide Mine • Edward Stratemeyer

... notorious criminals to justice. Now M. Juve manifested the greatest excitement over the discovery and the nature of this document; and he did not attempt to hide from his interviewer his belief that the strange nature of this unusual epistle was proof of the intervention of Fantomas. You very likely know that Juve has made it his special business to follow up Fantomas; he has sworn that he will take him, and he is after him body and soul. Let us hope he will succeed! But it is no good pretending that Juve's job is not as difficult a one as can ...

— Fantomas • Pierre Souvestre

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