Synonym: apt, hopeful, liable, likely, presumable, promising. Antonym: improbable. Similar words: probably, probability, reprobate, probation, probationary, problem, profitable, probity. Meaning: ['prɑbəbl /'prɒb-] n. an applicant likely to be chosen. adj. 1. likely but not certain to be or become true or real 2. apparently destined.
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91. The most probable outcome is 100-150 deaths from thyroid cancer over the same period.
92. Anticipated entry must be probable, rapid, and sufficient to counteract these effects.
93. There is no record of Osbald's parentage but a Bernician extraction seems highly probable.
94. In the offing, with a probable start date of 1992, are three INRs or Independent National Radio stations.
95. In fact it is probable that it has been repopulated several times.
96. Or else, which is more probable, the infection is particularly deadly to rabbits.
97. Each is as valid and probable a version of the twentieth century as the one recorded in our newspaper files.
98. According to a probable cause affidavit, Tarver and his girlfriend began to fight over money.
99. This led to a field study which at least seemed to locate not only the site but the probable outlines of the building.
100. Previously it is probable that the state of the harvest decided the need for the additional month.
101. It seems probable that the election will be held in May.
102. It is also very probable that the cognitive style which overinclusive and divergent thinking have in common is strongly inherited.
103. Trichloroethene, a probable human carcinogen, can cause liver damage and genetic mutations in both human and animal populations.
104. This, of course, would make the development of complexity probable, perhaps inevitable.
105. Indeed it would be just as probable as a jump from insect to one of its immediate neighbours.
106. The probable cause in this child's case was a viral infection.
107. Exhaustive assessment of the probable incidence of such eventualities lies outside the scope of these pages.http://sentencedict.com
108. The police surgeon was able to deduce the probable time of death from the temperature of the body.
109. Still thirty, he projects a seemingly more probable life, but one which proves equally to be a not-life.
110. It is highly probable that many of those in the initial cohort of patients would have died.
111. Activities i. Establish the means for early, systematic evaluation of newly recognized pathogens or syndromes of probable infectious etiology.
112. Battiness - premature senility of some sort - seemed the most probable explanation of the whole affair.
113. Grismore believes high-altitude nuclear tests are the most probable source of the radioactive specks.
114. This is most unlikely if the shares are listed but very probable if the company is a private one.
115. The hacks need any crumb of information to help them have a stab at selecting their probable line-ups.
116. The issue then was whether the Commonwealth had probable cause sufficient to justify those seizures.
117. Although the exact agents responsible are not known, it is probable that initiation is induced by a chemical carcinogen.
118. In practice it is very probable that they do not.
119. The project will go ahead, at a probable cost of $2.1 million.
120. A different principle of development - indeed, a reversal of the principle of increasing elaboration - seems more probable.
More similar words: probably, probability, reprobate, probation, probationary, problem, profitable, probity, pro bono, opprobrium, able, table, cable, viable, gabled, enable, liable, unable, notable, usable, likable, movable, tableau, parable, capable, affable, be able to, amiable, vegetable, disabled.