improbability

Roget category 473

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
› 4.3. Materials for reasoning
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#473. Improbability

noun

improbability, unlikelihood — unfavorable chance, bad chance, ghost of a chance, little chance, small chance, poor chance, scarcely any chance, no chance — bare possibility — long odds — incredibility etc. 485.

verb

be improbable etc. adj. — have a small chance etc. n..

adjective

improbable, unlikely, contrary to all reasonable expectation — wild [Coll.], far out [Coll.], out of sight [Coll.], outtasight [Coll.], heavy [Coll.].
rare etc. (infrequent) 137 — unheard of, inconceivable — unimaginable, inimaginable^† — incredible etc. 485 — more than doubtful — strange, bizarre (uncomformable) 83.

phrase

the chances are against — aquila non capit muscas [Lat.] — pedir peras pal olmo [Lat.].

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