Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being unlikely; improbability.
- noun The state of being unlike; dissimilarity.
- noun Unattractiveness; the incapacity to excite liking or love.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being unlikely.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The property of being
unlikely ,improbability .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the improbability of a specified outcome
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Examples
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Hedge funds eventually evolved, by intentional design effort, insurance policies against unlikely things happening because of the actuarial unlikeliness of those things happening.
Stephen Herrington: Swarm of the Black Swans Stephen Herrington 2011
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Hedge funds eventually evolved, by intentional design effort, insurance policies against unlikely things happening because of the actuarial unlikeliness of those things happening.
Stephen Herrington: Swarm of the Black Swans Stephen Herrington 2011
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But not even she can challenge Paul's teenage daughter for sheer unlikeliness.
Michael Giltz: Theater: Close Up Space Wastes Talented David Hyde Pierce Michael Giltz 2011
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Yet the reputation is difficult to marry with the warm, friendly and, quite frankly, hilarious gentleman in an anorak I find in the lobby of a hotel in Beverly Hills, looking a little bemused, possibly because he is standing next to – with pleasing unlikeliness – Joan Rivers.
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My interest in her was sparked by the sheer unlikeliness of her character.
A life of contrast: Daisy, Countess of Warwick | Edwardian Promenade 2009
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He used the extreme unlikeliness of a rescue scenario to his advantage and invented the infinite improbability drive, which became a major plot point in the story.
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He used the extreme unlikeliness of a rescue scenario to his advantage and invented the infinite improbability drive, which became a major plot point in the story.
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He used the extreme unlikeliness of a rescue scenario to his advantage and invented the infinite improbability drive, which became a major plot point in the story.
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He used the extreme unlikeliness of a rescue scenario to his advantage and invented the infinite improbability drive, which became a major plot point in the story.
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The reason, surely, was the sheer fantastical unlikeliness that Hugh Grant Hugh Grant! might have concealed a tape recorder somewhere on his person before driving down to Dover to entrap him.
From Stephen Fry to Hugh Grant: The rise of the celebrity activist 2011
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