unlikely   (Sound)

The adj unlikely has 3 senses

• improbable, unlikely -- (not likely to be true or to occur or to have occurred; "legislation on the question is highly unlikely"; "an improbable event")


• unlikely -- (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")


• improbable, unbelievable, unconvincing, unlikely -- (having a probability too low to inspire belief)