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unlikely
adverbs
highly/most/very unlikely
• It’s highly unlikely that he’ll survive.
extremely unlikely
• The government is extremely unlikely to change its policy.
rather/pretty/quite/fairly unlikely
• I may have thrown it away by mistake, but that’s pretty unlikely.
increasingly unlikely
(= more and more unlikely as time passes )
• It looks increasingly unlikely that the Bank of England will cut interest rates.
nouns
an unlikely possibility/prospect
• The most unlikely possibility was that she might resign.
an unlikely scenario/occurrence
• They should build a new road, but that’s an unlikely scenario.
an unlikely alliance/coalition
• Once he resigned as president, the unlikely coalition of former enemies fell apart.
phrases
in the unlikely event of something
(= if something which is unlikely happens )
• In the unlikely event of an accident, the system will automatically shut down.
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adj. VERBS appear, be, look, sound The takeover bid now looks unlikely to succeed. | become | remain, seem | make sth | consider sth, think sth He thought it unlikely that she would refuse. ADV. extremely, highly, most, very | increasingly | not at all | a bit, pretty, quite, rather, somewhat | apparently | inherently A collapse into new forms of fascism is inherently unlikely in any Western democracy.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary