LIKELY meaning: Probable, with a good chance

We found 34 dictionaries that define the word likely:

General (28 matching dictionaries)

likely: Merriam-Webster.com
likely, likely: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
likely: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
likely: Collins English Dictionary
likely: Vocabulary.com
Likely, likely: Wordnik
likely: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Likely, likely: Wiktionary
likely: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
likely: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
likely: Infoplease Dictionary
Likely, likely: Dictionary.com
likely: Online Etymology Dictionary
likely: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Likely: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Likely: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
likely: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
likely: Rhymezone
likely: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
likely: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
LIKELY: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
likely: Free Dictionary
likely: Mnemonic Dictionary
likely: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
likely: Dictionary/thesaurus
likely: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)

likely: Legal dictionary
likely: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

likely: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

likely: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

likely: Idioms

Tech (1 matching dictionary)

National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ adjective:  Probable; having a greater-than-even chance of occurring.
▸ adjective:  (as predicate, followed by to and infinitive) Reasonably to be expected; apparently destined, probable.
▸ adjective:  Appropriate, suitable; believable; promising, having a good potential.
▸ adjective:  Plausible; within the realm of credibility.
▸ adjective:  Leading with high probability to some specified outcome.
▸ adjective:  (archaic) Attractive; pleasant.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Similar; like; alike.
▸ noun:  Something or somebody considered likely.
▸ adverb:  (obsolete) Similarly.
▸ adverb:  Probably.
▸ noun:  A surname.
▸ noun:  A census-designated place in Modoc County, California, United States.

Opposite:

unlikely, improbable, doubtful, implausible, remote

Phrases:

most likely, not likely, a likely story, as likely as not, likely looking, more...

Adjectives:

most, how, very, least, distinctive, complete

Colors:

blue, green, yellow, orange, red, purple, pink, brown, gray, black

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