improbable
the probable cause of the accident
It's possible, though not probable.
Redundancies seem increasingly probable.
It seems probable that the situation will only get worse.
It's highly probable that he'll lose his job.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Possible and probable
add credence to something
always
anything's possibleidiom
arguably
as never beforeidiom
bet
fair
happen
houseroom
I shouldn't wonderidiom
in with a chance
it isn't over until the fat lady singsidiom
manage
probabilistic
probabilistically
probability
probably
prospective
tend
tip

probable | American Dictionary

probable
adjective
us/ˈprɑb·ə·bəl/
likely to be true or likely to happen:
The doctor said that the most probable cause of death was heart failure.

probably

adverb[ not gradable ]us/ˈprɑb·ə·bli/
I’ll probably be home about midnight.

Examples of probable

probable
However, it is probable that these volumes are unrealistic in routine clinical practice with a mix of patient acuities.
It seems quite probable that at least some of these are increasing in frequency, though it is difficult to be sure of this.
Finally, practical discussion on the teaching of specific spoken genres is reviewed and probable future directions are discussed.
We thus do not see, how a "probable diversity" of the subjects could be responsible for our results.
Unequal sampling efficiency for living and dead parasites is probable for recent infections (stage 4 and earlier).
Consequently, it is probable that the total income earned by super-hunter households from production activities is under-estimated.
That swarms of mosquitos (like other insects) are thus picked up, presumably by ascending air-currents, and deposited a long way off is extremely probable.
The probable type of receptor present was inferred based upon differential relative affinities of the drug for each of the receptor subtypes.
These measures should be methodologically diverse and have at least face validity as possible or probable correlates of the dependent measure.
One of the reasons to associate probabilities with grammars is to retrieve the most probable analyses that can generate a given input sentence.
It is probable that their influences on domestic group decisions grew increasingly weaker in some places, but not in others.
It is also possible that septic or sewage treatment systems are probable environmental sources of giardia cyst contamination.
For example, an emergency doctor has to make some conjectures about the most probable causes of the symptoms observed.
This cutoff was therefore used to identify probable depression in the current study.
Probable cases were defined as at least one positive culture sputum, respiratory symptoms, resolution with specific therapy and no other concomitant infection.
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