Likeliest

adj

adj ·3 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    superlative form of likely: most likely form-of, rare, superlative

    "... the common man of pleasure and the frivolous woman of fashion, still the wisest way to fuse their minds to union, the likeliest receipt for moral good and social comfort, would have been this course of foreign scenes, of new faces,[…]"

Synonyms

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liablecrediblein all probabilitypotentialprobableprobably

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"I was never the likeliest candidate for this office."

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