Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adv. Most likely; presumably.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- With probability; in a probable manner; in all likelihood; with the appearance of truth or reality; likely: as, the story is probably true; the account is probably correct.
- Plausibly; with verisimilitude.
Wiktionary
- adv. In all likelihood.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. In a probable manner; in likelihood.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. easy to believe on the basis of available evidence
- adv. with considerable certainty; without much doubt
Etymologies
- From probable + -ly. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“We have 300 million people here..probably 250 million who are natural born and probably 130 million over 35 and probably 115 million with the residency requirement.”
It's absurd that the governor of the largest state can't run for President.
“Kansas will probably have to beat MU's shaky press tonight without Selby, who is probably doubtful, according to Self because of a stress reaction in his right foot.”
“I'm thinking of a smaller, more entrepreneurial outfit, probably only 10 years old or even younger, and probably still run in a very hands-on way by its founder.”
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“Back during the Korean War, George and Ralph used to patronize Asian prostitutes whenever they needed to score some "gash" a term probably unfamiliar to today's more politically correct audiences.”
“The name probably doesn't mean much to you it doesn't mean much to me, either, although it is of great interest to my creditors, but I am a Chase customer who, like you, has been victimized by the bad housing market.”
“That probably translates as 'we've seen the blowback of conversions with Clash of the Titans and The Last Airbender, and we don't want to risk our golden goose in such a manner'.”
“Admittedly, my definition probably differs from what seems to be the popular notion of that term.”
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“Palin probably is out because of the scandals in her family.”
“In truth, the label probably overplays his Blairite leanings.”
“Moreover, when I was searching for Hamentaschen recipes to make this year, I found out that the name probably stemmed from a German word, Mohntaschen, which means Poppy-seed pockets.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘probably’.
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Mr.B's list
This is intended to be a word bank created by the pupils of an EFL class (Year 10).
appropriate, properly, probably, indulgent, monolingual (vs. ..., extend, extention, intend, intention, yawn, telescopic, guess and 1 more...
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
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unfathomably, glice, cuh, fab, ciggaty, doll, thuggin, oxymoronic, pineapple, succubutt, griming, cheeky and 2369 more... -
Superlatives
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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There is No 'X' in 'Espresso': Words ...
I'm not talking about a Pennsylvanian drinking wooder or a Virginian crapping in an oothoos or even the plural form of "y'all" being "all y'all". (Hey, I love my Appalachian heritage.) I'm talking ...
espresso, species, nuclear, ask, wednesday, mischievous, poinsettia, february, walk, asterisk, jaguar, pronunciation and 9 more...
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Most often mispronounced words
across, affidavit, antarctic, arctic, ask, athlete, barbiturate, barbed wire, business, cavalry, candidate, cardsharp and 50 more...
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Words Some People Can't Pronounce, No...
vietnam, nuclear, vietnamese, macrame, sandwich, peripheral, remuneration, wash, mischievous, february, wednesday, spaghetti and 38 more...
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Wordnik virgin
I've heard all of these mispronounced. No kidding.
marshmallow, tortilla, Illinois, out of bounds, mozzarella, with, cayenne, mediocre, template, Bratwurst, library, pillow and 11 more...
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Words often used by stupid people to ...
obviously, like, um, basically, you know, sort of, well, kind of, maybe, right, probably, possibly and 10 more...
Tweets
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