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Definition of Improbably
1. Adverb. Not easy to believe. "Behind you the coastal hills plunge to the incredibly blue sea backed by the Turkish mountains"
Partainyms: Implausible, Improbable, Incredible, Unbelievable
Antonyms: Credibly, Believably
Definition of Improbably
1. Adverb. In an improbable manner; without probability. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Improbably
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Improbably
Literary usage of Improbably
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1886)
"not improbably be identified with the elaborate ' Ordinances for watch and ward
of > Calais' in Cotton MS. (Faust. E. vii. 89- \ 102 A). ..."
2. The Theological and Literary Journal (1861)
"... and to whose population he not improbably first communicated the gospel, there
is still a Greek church in which a few families worship. ..."
3. The American Loyalists: Or, Biographical Sketches of Adherents to the by Lorenzo Sabine (1847)
"And some persons — not improbably — will be ready to ask, " If the signers of
the Declaration of Independence were Tories, where shall we look for the Whigs ..."
4. A Treatise on the Culture of the Apple & Pear: And on the Manufacture of by Thomas Andrew Knight (1801)
"... it nearer to the highly cultivated state, and lessening it's harshness, would
not improbably be injurious to the other by producing^ the same effects. ..."
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