improbable
/ɪmˈpɹɑbəbl̩/ adjective B2- Not likely to be true. · It's highly improbable that aliens abducted you.
- Not likely to happen. · Due to the loss of power, it is improbable that we will begin on time.
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“It seems most improbable.”
“We must fall back upon the old axiom that when all other contingencies fail, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Dantès was then guilty, and now he is innocent, and it is as much my duty to free him as it was to condemn him.” Villefort thus forestalled any danger of an inquiry, which, however improbable it might be, if it did take place would leave him defenceless.
"That process," said I, "starts upon the supposition that when you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains however improbable, must be the truth.
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