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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adverb Most likely; presumably.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • With probability; in a probable manner; in all likelihood; with the appearance of truth or reality; likely: as, the story is probably true; the account is probably correct.
  • Plausibly; with verisimilitude.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a probable manner; in likelihood.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In all likelihood.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb easy to believe on the basis of available evidence
  • adverb with considerable certainty; without much doubt

Etymologies

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From probable +‎ -ly.

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