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improbable adjective [ ɪmˈprɒbəb(ə)l ]

• not likely to be true or to happen.
• "this account of events was seen by the jury as most improbable"
Similar: unlikely, not likely, doubtful, dubious, debatable, questionable, uncertain, difficult to believe, implausible, far-fetched, fanciful, unthinkable, inconceivable, unimaginable, unimagined, incredible,
Opposite: probable, certain,
Origin: late 16th century: from French, or from Latin improbabilis ‘hard to prove’, from in- ‘not’ + probabilis (see probable).


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