unlikely
/ʌnˈlaɪkli/ adjective B1- Not likely; improbable; not to be reasonably expected. · In the highly unlikely event of landing in water, lifejackets are stored under the seat.
- Not holding out a prospect of success; likely to fail; unpromising. · unlikely means
Comparative unlikelier · Superlative unlikeliest
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As for Villefort, instead of sending to Paris, he carefully preserved the petition that so fearfully compromised Dantès, in the hopes of an event that seemed not unlikely,—that is, a second restoration.
Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely that he will be back before evening.”
"There remained the third possibility, into which, rare and unlikely as it was, everything seemed to fit.
Our chambers were always full of chemicals and of criminal relics which had a way of wandering into unlikely positions, and of turning up in the butter-dish or in even less desirable places.
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