Definition for Likely:

• expected to become or be; in prospect; " potential clients"; " expected income"

Synonyms for Likely:

• adj.

  •assumptive (adjective)
  • taken for granted.
  •believable (adjective)
  • acceptable,
  • convincing,
  • credible,
  • true,
  • supposable.
  •deducible (adjective)
  • derivable.
  •future (adjective)
  • in the offing,
  • in the cards.
  •hopeful (adjective)
  • promising,
  • well timed.
  •hypothetic (adjective)
  • hypothetic.
  •predictable (adjective)
  • foreseeable.
  •probable (adjective)
  • inferential,
  • prone,
  • possible,
  • chancy.
  •probable, apt, hopeful (adjective)
  • favorite,
  • achievable,
  • destined,
  • rational,
  • fair,
  • reasonable,
  • workable,
  • subject to,
  • practicable,
  • seeming.
  •reasonable (adjective)
  • intelligent,
  • cogent,
  • deductive,
  • sensible,
  • inductive,
  • sound,
  • thought-out,
  • wise,
  • logical,
  • thinking.
  •supposed (adjective)
  • suppositious,
  • Suppositive,
  • supposititious,
  • suppositional.
  •susceptible (adjective)
  • responsible,
  • vulnerable,
  • susceptible,
  • open.
  •thinkable (adjective)
  • cogitable.
  •true (adjective)
  • well-founded.

• adv.

  •probably (adverb)
  • plausibly,
  • aptly,
  • doubtless,
  • seemingly,
  • no doubt,
  • Assumably,
  • like as not,
  • most likely,
  • presumptively,
  • Doubtlessly.

• n.

  •
  • healthy.
  •
  • certain,
  • sure,
  • guaranteed,
  • bound.
  •
  • imaginable,
  • mortal.
  •
  • cheering,
  • encouraging.
  •
  • given.
  •likely (noun)
  • probable,
  • liable,
  • presumptive,
  • belike,
  • equiprobable,
  • potential,
  • presumed,
  • verisimilar,
  • in all probability,
  • in all likelihood,
  • probably.

• v.

  •promising (verb)
  • suitable.
  •supposed (verb)
  • hypothetical,
  • Imputed,
  • reputed,
  • estimated.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • Unconceivable,
  • future,
  • potentially,
  • fated,
  • plausibleness,
  • preordained,
  • budding,
  • unconvincing,
  • plausibility,
  • anticipated,
  • predestined,
  • up-and-coming,
  • creditability,
  • believability,
  • Creditableness,
  • inevitable,
  • odds-on.
  •
  • possibility,
  • verisimilitude,
  • tend,
  • incline.
  •
  • lean,
  • positively,
  • chance.
  •
  • prospect.
  •
  • due,
  • thin.
  •
  • color.
  •
  • strong,
  • weak.
  •anticipated
  • predictable.

Paraphrases for Likely:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    probable, apt.
  • Proper noun, singular
    probable.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Adjective
    unlikely.
  • Adverb
    unlikely.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    inclined, likelihood, prone, anticipated, improbable, susceptible, willing, feasible, prospective, vulnerable, foreseeable, frequently, lucky, predictable, Opportunities, reluctant, implausible, amenable, fortunate, conducive, conceivable, doubtful, exposed, often, plausible, impossible, ready, potential, frequent, suitable.
  • Proper noun, singular
    potential.
  • Adverb
    presumably, likelihood, arguably, perhaps, undoubtedly, foreseeably, apparently, conceivably, surely, doubtless, definitely, generally, frequently, reasonably, plausibly, readily, typically, obviously, supposedly, evidently, doubt, hopefully, often, plausible, seemingly, clearly, significantly.
  • Verb, past tense
    Tended, identified, proposed, susceptible.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    indicates, appears, occurs.

Antonyms for Likely:

• adj.

  • all
    unlikely.
  • probable, apt, hopeful
    impossible, unforeseeable, inapt, implausible.
  • Other antonyms:
    gray, suspicious, abhorrent, questionable, unsightly, Unhandsome, frumpy, unimposing, funereal, disgusting, negative, unreasonable, absurd, vile, dreary, horrible, ridiculous, repellent, unshapely, gorgonian, depressing, objectionable, gloomy, cheerless, unaesthetic, loathsome, unpropitious, skeptical, dismal, retrospective, outlandish, ghastly, unpretty, ill-favored, unappealing, terrible, disheartening, unfavorable, repulsive, discouraging, useless, desperate, unappetizing, unbeautiful, nasty, frumpish, unsure, disagreeable, ugly, shocking, nauseating, unlovely, homely, dark, preposterous, wretched, grim, unprepossessing, bad, unpleasant, unpromising, uncertain, Haggish, miserable, dreadful, revolting, glum, hideous, offensive, unencouraging, bleak, frightful, unattractive, unbecoming, inauspicious, witchy, plain, abominable, unpleasing, grotesque, repugnant, unworkable, sickening, suspect, comfortless, foul, uncomely.

• adv.

  • probably
    improbably.

Homophones for Likely:

• lescol, locale, locally, locule, legal, loquaciously, l'aquila, Lucius Clay, luckily, lysol, lexical, lazuli, lucilia, logically, logical, Ligule, local, lozal, lazily, like hell, laxly, lawlessly, legally, lugsail, lisle, lasalle, lusciously, low-cal, law school, loosely.