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The meaning of LIKELY is having a high probability of occurring or being true : very probable. How to use likely in a sentence.

Likely and unlikely are adjectives. We use them to say that something will probably happen or not happen in the future. We can use them before a noun, or with the verbs be, seem and appear: …

A likely person, place, or thing is one that will probably be suitable for a particular purpose. At one point he had seemed a likely candidate to become Prime Minister. We aimed the microscope at a likely …

In conversation and in informal writing, likely is sometimes an adverb with most, more than, or very in front of it, or as part of the phrase more likely than not.

Oct 9, 2025 · likely (comparative more likely or likelier, superlative most likely or likeliest) Rain is likely later this afternoon. His parents — a restless, titanically self-involved father and a mother who …

Likely in the senses "probably destined'' and "probably'' is often preceded by a qualifying word like very, more, or quite: The board is very likely to turn down the request.

Likely definition: probably or apparently destined (usually followed by an infinitive).. See examples of LIKELY used in a sentence.

Synonyms for LIKELY: probable, possible, inevitable, potential, doubtless, conceivable, supposable, bound; Antonyms of LIKELY: unlikely, doubtful, questionable, improbable, impossible, dubious, …

"So are you coming running with me?" "Not likely!" (Definition of likely from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)