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1. Not likely to be true or to occur or to have occurred
   "legislation on the question is highly unlikely";
   - improbable
    
2. 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"
    
3. Having a probability too low to inspire belief
   - improbable, unbelievable, unconvincing, doubtful

Derived forms: unlikelier, unlikeliest

See also: farfetched, far-fetched, imaginative, implausible, last, likelihood, likeliness, outside, remote, supposed

Antonym: likely, probable

Encyclopedia: Unlikely