unlikely adj.

VERBS appear, be, look, sound The takeover bid now looks unlikely to succeed. | become | remain, seem | make sth | consider sth, think sth He thought it unlikely that she would refuse.

ADV. extremely, highly, most, very | increasingly | not at all | a bit, pretty, quite, rather, somewhat | apparently | inherently A collapse into new forms of fascism is inherently unlikely in any Western democracy.