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likelihood - 15 thesaurus results
Main Entry: likelihood
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: chance of something happening
Synonyms: direction, fair shake, fighting chance*, liability, long shot*, possibility, presumption, probability, prospect, tendency, toss-up, trend, coin flip, even break, fifty-fifty*, good chance, likeliness, outside chance, plausibility, reasonableness, shot at, strong possibility
Antonyms: unlikelihood
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Main Entry: likelihood
Part of Speech: noun
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Adjectives:
hopeful, apparent, colorable, credible, easy of belief, in a fair way, likely, ostensible, plausible, presumable, presumptive, probable, reasonable, specious, to be expected, well founded
Main Entry: contingency
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: chance happening; possibility
Synonyms: accident, break, chance, crisis, crossroads, emergency, event, eventuality, exigency, fortuity, happening, if it's cool, incident, juncture, likelihood, occasion, odds, opportunity, pass, pinch, predicament, probability, strait, turning point, uncertainty, zero hour*
Antonyms: certainty, definiteness, reality, surety, truth
Main Entry: credibility
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: believeableness
Synonyms: chance, integrity, likelihood, possibility, probability, prospect, reliability, soundness, validity, believability, plausibility, satisfactoriness, solidity, solidness, tenability, trustworthiness
Notes: something is credible to the extent that it is worthy of belief, so that credibility is worthiness of belief; credence is an acknowledgment of such worthiness
Antonyms: improbability, implausibility, unreasonableness
Main Entry: eventuality
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: something that probably will happen
Synonyms: aftermath, case, chance, consequence, contingency, effect, event, happening, issue, likelihood, outcome, possibility, probability, result, sequel, toss-up, upshot*, aftereffect, any case, go-down, goings-on
Antonyms: improbability, unlikelihood
Main Entry: expectancy
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: anticipation
Synonyms: assumption, assurance, belief, calculation, confidence, conjecture, expectation, hope, likelihood, outlook, prediction, presentation, presentiment, presumption, probability, prospect, reliance, supposition, surmise, suspense, trust, view, looking forward, waiting
Main Entry: expectation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: belief, anticipation
Synonyms: apprehension, assumption, assurance, calculation, chance, confidence, conjecture, design, expectancy, fear, forecast, hope, intention, likelihood, motive, notion, outlook, possibility, prediction, presumption, probability, promise, prospect, reliance, supposition, surmise, suspense, trust, view, looking forward
Main Entry: predisposition
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: willingness, inclination
Synonyms: bent*, bias, choice, cup of tea*, dish*, disposition, flash, groove, leaning, likelihood, liking, option, partiality, penchant, predilection, preference, proclivity, propensity, susceptibility, tendency, thing*, type, weakness, druthers, potentiality, proneness
Antonyms: disinclination, unwillingness
Main Entry: supposition
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: guess, belief
Synonyms: assumption, condition, conjecture, doubt, guessing, hunch, hypothesis, idea, likelihood, notion, opinion, postulate, premise, presumption, shot in the dark*, speculation, suppose, surmise, suspicion, theory, thesis, view, apriorism, guesstimate, guesswork, posit, postulation, presupposition, rough guess, sneaking suspicion, stab in the dark
Antonyms: fact, knowledge, proof, reality
Main Entry: chance
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: possibility, probability
Synonyms: break, contingency, fair shake*, fighting chance*, liability, likelihood, long shot*, occasion, odds, opening, opportunity, outlook, prospect, scope, shot*, show, squeak, time, wager, indications, look-in
Antonyms: assurance, certainty, design, law, plan, scheme
Main Entry: presumption
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: belief, hypothesis
Synonyms: anticipation, assumption, basis, chance, conjecture, grounds, guess, likelihood, opinion, postulate, premise, probability, reason, shot, shot in the dark*, stab, supposition, surmise, suspicion, thesis, apriorism, plausibility, posit, postulation, presupposition, sneaking suspicion
Antonyms: reality, truth
Main Entry: prospect
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: outlook for future
Synonyms: anticipation, calculation, chance, contemplation, expectancy, expectation, forecast, future, hope, likelihood, odds, opening, plan, possibility, presumption, probability, promise, proposal, thought, in the cards, irons in the fire
Main Entry: odds
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: probability
Synonyms: balance, favor, likelihood, superiority, toss-up, chances
Antonyms: improbability, unlikelihood
Main Entry: outlook
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: probable future
Synonyms: chance, expectation, forecast, law of averages*, likelihood, opening, opportunity, possibility, probability, prospect, risk, appearances, normal course, prospects
Antonyms: past
Main Entry: liability
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: chance, probability
Synonyms: exposure, likelihood, susceptibility, tendency, openness, proneness, vulnerability, vulnerableness
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