unlikely

  • (a) not likely to be true or to occur or to have occurred
    • legislation on the question is highly unlikely
    • an improbable event
    improbable,
  • (a) has little chance of being the case or coming about
    • an unlikely story
    • an unlikely candidate for reelection
    • a butcher is unlikely to preach vegetarianism
  • (s) having a probability too low to inspire belief improbable, unbelievable, unconvincing,

Synonyms

improbable unbelievable unconvincing

Antonyms

probable likely

Words of close approximity