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Unlikely   /ənlˈaɪkli/   Listen
adjective
Unlikely  adj.  
1.
Not likely; improbable; not to be reasonably expected; as, an unlikely event; the thing you mention is very unlikely.
2.
Not holding out a prospect of success; likely to fail; unpromising; as, unlikely means.
3.
Not such as to inspire liking; unattractive; disagreeable. (Obs.) "The unlikely eld of me."


adverb
Unlikely  adv.  In an unlikely manner.





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"Unlikely" Quotes from Famous Books



... remained sunk in the earth until 1837. In that year it was raised and now forms the dome of a small chapel made by excavating the space below it. The worshipers enter through the opening where the bell was broken by the fall. It is very unlikely that any attempt will ever be made to restore it ...
— Golden Days for Boys and Girls - Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12, 1892 • Various
... that quite recently it has been stated that both the Rev. SILAS K. HOCKING and Mr. JACK DEMPSEY have taken part in photo-plays. It cannot be doubted that the peculiar talent required for making the heart of the people throb is being revealed in the most unlikely places. ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, February 25th, 1920 • Various
... the extreme of shabbiness; his clothes being evidently worn as long as they could possibly hold together, and his generally depressed air, giving the effect of one who had gone down in the world, made him, even without the misleading "John Smith," most unlikely to be identified with the Ascott Leaf ...
— Mistress and Maid • Dinah Craik (aka: Miss Mulock)
... objections to this view of the origin of the fairy idea. First and foremost, the smaller prehistoric aboriginal peoples of Europe themselves possessed tales of little people, of spirits of field and forest, flood and fell. It is unlikely that man ...
— Legends & Romances of Brittany • Lewis Spence
... opportunity of my absence from the camp, in search of you, when you met with your accident at the treasure-cave, to return to their own island, taking along with them a few unconsidered trifles. Doubtless they have now been helping themselves again; and, although it is unlikely that they have taken anything of real value, I will not have them paying marauding visits to this island. They cannot again loot the brig, it is true, for they have set fire to her, and she must now burn until she burns herself out; but, unless I can very effectually convince them of the folly ...
— Dick Leslie's Luck - A Story of Shipwreck and Adventure • Harry Collingwood


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