unlikely
adjective/ʌnˈlaɪkli/
Frequency rank: #2,790 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
Not likely to happen or be true.
Example sentence
It is unlikely that it will rain today, despite the dark clouds.
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