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Pronunciation

• /ˈpɹɑ.(b)li/ (General-American, colloquial)
• /ˈpɹab.li/ Dublin
• /ˈpɹɑ.bə.bli/ (General-American)
• /ˈpɹɑə(b)li/ (General-American, colloquial)
• /ˈpɹɒb.li/ (Canada, Received-Pronunciation, colloquial)
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• /ˈpɹɒb.ə.bli/ (Canada, Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From Middle English probably, probabily, equivalent to probable + -ly.

Meanings

1. In all likelihood.
   • Probably he'll arrive tomorrow.
   • It probably is too late for amends.
   • Probably it is too late for amends.
   • Probably she has arrived by now.
   • [S]uch courſes wil more probably advance his trade, they wil certainly procure him a bleſſing, […] 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, “Of Christian Justice”, in The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], →OCLC, section III (Of Negotiation, or Civil Contracts), page 208:
   • He probably will arrive tomorrow.
   • [The Bunters] send me Christmas cards; generally the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes[…]. And then, when you see the Bunters, you probably find that they are the most melancholy old folk with malignant diseases. 1921, Ben Travers, “Westward Ho!”, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC, part I (“Come He Will”), pages 1–2:
   • She probably has arrived by now.
   • She has probably arrived by now.
   • It is probably too late for amends.
   • Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close[…]above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them. Many insects probably use this strategy, which is a close analogy to crypsis in the visible world—camouflage and other methods for blending into one’s visual background. 2013 May–June, William E. Conner, “An Acoustic Arms Race”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, pages 206–7:
   • He'll probably arrive tomorrow.

Forms

Coordinates

mayhap · certainly · indubitably · possibly · doubtless · perhaps · haply · maybe · presumably · definitely · mayhaps · doubtlessly · as likely as not · as like as not · perchance

Synonyms

in all probability · belike · more than likely · likely · mostly

Translations (107)

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