"probably" meaning in English

See probably in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adverb

IPA: /ˈpɹɒbəbli/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈpɹɒbli/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈpɹɑbəbli/ [General-American], /ˈpɹɑbli/ [General-American], /ˈpɹɑəbli/ [General-American] Audio: en-us-probably.ogg [US] Forms: more probably [comparative], most probably [superlative]
Etymology: From Middle English probably, probabily, equivalent to probable + -ly. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|probably}} Middle English probably, {{m|enm|probabily}} probabily, {{suf|en|probable|ly}} probable + -ly Head templates: {{en-adv}} probably (comparative more probably, superlative most probably)
  1. In all likelihood. Translations (in all likelihood): مِن اَلْمُحْتَمَل (min al-muḥtamal) (Arabic), رُبَّمَا (rubbamā) (Arabic), على الأغلب (ʕala alʼaḡlab) [Hijazi-Arabic] (Arabic), مُحتمل (muḥtamal) [Hijazi-Arabic] (Arabic), وقيل (wa-qīla) [Moroccan-Arabic] (Arabic), հավանաբար (havanabar) (Armenian), yəqin (Azerbaijani), seguraski (Basque), вераго́дна (vjerahódna) (Belarusian), напэ́ўна (napéŭna) (Belarusian), вероя́тно (verojátno) (Bulgarian), probablement (Catalan), لەوانەیە (lewaneye) (Central Kurdish), 大概 (dàgài) (Chinese Mandarin), 或許 (Chinese Mandarin), 或许 (huòxú) (Chinese Mandarin), pravděpodobně (Czech), asi (Czech), spíš (Czech), spíše (Czech), sandsynligvis (Danish), waarschijnlijk (Dutch), verŝajne (Esperanto), kredeble (Esperanto), todennäköisesti (Finnish), luultavasti (Finnish), probablement (French), sans doute (French), sûrement (French), ალბათ (albat) (Georgian), wahrscheinlich (German), glaublich (German), πιθανώς (pithanós) (Greek), μάλλον (mállon) (Greek), כנראה (kanir'é) (Hebrew), valószínűleg (Hungarian), líklega (Icelandic), sennilega (Icelandic), probable (Ido), mungkin (Indonesian), kemungkinan (Indonesian), probabilemente (Interlingua), is dócha (english: go) (Irish), probabilmente (Italian), 多分 (tabun) (alt: たぶん) (Japanese), 十中八九 (jitchūhakku) (alt: じっちゅうはっく) (Japanese), 恐らく (osoraku) (alt: おそらく) (Japanese), មុខជា (muk cie) (Khmer), 아마 (ama) (Korean), probabiliter (Latin), fortasse (Latin), fortassis (Latin), droši vien (Latvian), веројатно (verojatno) (Macedonian), barangkali (Malay), puano (Maori), antakeligvis (Norwegian Bokmål), trolig (Norwegian Bokmål), sannsynlig (Norwegian Bokmål), prawdopodobnie (Polish), przypuszczalnie (Polish), chyba (Polish), provavelmente (Portuguese), probabil (Romanian), вероя́тно (verojátno) (Russian), наве́рно (navérno) (Russian), вероватно [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), вјероватно [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), веројатно [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), вјеројатно [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), verovatno [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), vjerovatno [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), verojatno [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), vjerojatno [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), pravdepodobne (Slovak), verjetno (Slovene), probablemente (Spanish), seguro (Spanish), sin duda (Spanish), seguramente (Spanish), nog (Swedish), sannolikt (Swedish), troligen (Swedish), antagligen (Swedish), förmodligen (Swedish), troligtvis (Swedish), baká (Tagalog), ท่าจะ (tâa jà) (Thai), muhtemelen (Turkish), her halde (Turkish), пе́вно (pévno) (Ukrainian), імові́рно (imovírno) (Ukrainian), ймові́рно (jmovírno) (Ukrainian), có lẽ (Vietnamese), có thể (Vietnamese), luveratiko (Volapük), dandjreus (Walloon), probåbe (Walloon), azår (Walloon), מסתּמא (mistome) (Yiddish), -yugnarqe (english: verbal postbase) (Yup'ik), teqez [neuter] (Zazaki), mı het ke (Zazaki), muhtemelen (Zazaki)

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          "sense": "in all likelihood",
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          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
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          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "huòxú",
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          "sense": "in all likelihood",
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          "word": "sans doute"
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          "lang": "French",
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          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "albat",
          "sense": "in all likelihood",
          "word": "ალბათ"
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "in all likelihood",
          "word": "wahrscheinlich"
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "in all likelihood",
          "word": "glaublich"
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        {
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "pithanós",
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          "word": "πιθανώς"
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        {
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "mállon",
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          "word": "μάλλον"
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        {
          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "roman": "kanir'é",
          "sense": "in all likelihood",
          "word": "כנראה"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "in all likelihood",
          "word": "valószínűleg"
        },
        {
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "in all likelihood",
          "word": "líklega"
        },
        {
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "in all likelihood",
          "word": "sennilega"
        },
        {
          "code": "io",
          "lang": "Ido",
          "sense": "in all likelihood",
          "word": "probable"
        },
        {
          "code": "id",
          "lang": "Indonesian",
          "sense": "in all likelihood",
          "word": "mungkin"
        },
        {
          "code": "id",
          "lang": "Indonesian",
          "sense": "in all likelihood",
          "word": "kemungkinan"
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          "code": "ia",
          "lang": "Interlingua",
          "sense": "in all likelihood",
          "word": "probabilemente"
        },
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          "code": "ga",
          "english": "go",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "in all likelihood",
          "word": "is dócha"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "in all likelihood",
          "word": "probabilmente"
        },
        {
          "alt": "たぶん",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "tabun",
          "sense": "in all likelihood",
          "word": "多分"
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        {
          "alt": "じっちゅうはっく",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "jitchūhakku",
          "sense": "in all likelihood",
          "word": "十中八九"
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        {
          "alt": "おそらく",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "osoraku",
          "sense": "in all likelihood",
          "word": "恐らく"
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        {
          "code": "km",
          "lang": "Khmer",
          "roman": "muk cie",
          "sense": "in all likelihood",
          "word": "មុខជា"
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        {
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "ama",
          "sense": "in all likelihood",
          "word": "아마"
        },
        {
          "code": "ckb",
          "lang": "Central Kurdish",
          "roman": "lewaneye",
          "sense": "in all likelihood",
          "word": "لەوانەیە"
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        {
          "code": "la",
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          "word": "barangkali"
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          "sense": "in all likelihood",
          "word": "puano"
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          "word": "antakeligvis"
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          "word": "trolig"
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          "word": "наве́рно"
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          "code": "sh",
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          "sense": "in all likelihood",
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          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "in all likelihood",
          "tags": [
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          "code": "sh",
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          "sense": "in all likelihood",
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          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "in all likelihood",
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          "word": "vjerojatno"
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          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "in all likelihood",
          "word": "pravdepodobne"
        },
        {
          "code": "sl",
          "lang": "Slovene",
          "sense": "in all likelihood",
          "word": "verjetno"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "in all likelihood",
          "word": "probablemente"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "in all likelihood",
          "word": "seguro"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "in all likelihood",
          "word": "sin duda"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "in all likelihood",
          "word": "seguramente"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "in all likelihood",
          "word": "nog"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "in all likelihood",
          "word": "sannolikt"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "in all likelihood",
          "word": "troligen"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "in all likelihood",
          "word": "antagligen"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "in all likelihood",
          "word": "förmodligen"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "in all likelihood",
          "word": "troligtvis"
        },
        {
          "code": "tl",
          "lang": "Tagalog",
          "sense": "in all likelihood",
          "word": "baká"
        },
        {
          "code": "th",
          "lang": "Thai",
          "roman": "tâa jà",
          "sense": "in all likelihood",
          "word": "ท่าจะ"
        },
        {
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "in all likelihood",
          "word": "muhtemelen"
        },
        {
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "in all likelihood",
          "word": "her halde"
        },
        {
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "pévno",
          "sense": "in all likelihood",
          "word": "пе́вно"
        },
        {
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "imovírno",
          "sense": "in all likelihood",
          "word": "імові́рно"
        },
        {
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "jmovírno",
          "sense": "in all likelihood",
          "word": "ймові́рно"
        },
        {
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "in all likelihood",
          "word": "có lẽ"
        },
        {
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "in all likelihood",
          "word": "có thể"
        },
        {
          "code": "vo",
          "lang": "Volapük",
          "sense": "in all likelihood",
          "word": "luveratiko"
        },
        {
          "code": "wa",
          "lang": "Walloon",
          "sense": "in all likelihood",
          "word": "dandjreus"
        },
        {
          "code": "wa",
          "lang": "Walloon",
          "sense": "in all likelihood",
          "word": "probåbe"
        },
        {
          "code": "wa",
          "lang": "Walloon",
          "sense": "in all likelihood",
          "word": "azår"
        },
        {
          "code": "yi",
          "lang": "Yiddish",
          "roman": "mistome",
          "sense": "in all likelihood",
          "word": "מסתּמא"
        },
        {
          "code": "esu",
          "english": "verbal postbase",
          "lang": "Yup'ik",
          "sense": "in all likelihood",
          "word": "-yugnarqe"
        },
        {
          "code": "zza",
          "lang": "Zazaki",
          "sense": "in all likelihood",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "teqez"
        },
        {
          "code": "zza",
          "lang": "Zazaki",
          "sense": "in all likelihood",
          "word": "mı het ke"
        },
        {
          "code": "zza",
          "lang": "Zazaki",
          "sense": "in all likelihood",
          "word": "muhtemelen"
        }
      ]
    }
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      "ipa": "/ˈpɹɒbəbli/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpɹɒbli/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpɹɑbəbli/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpɹɑbli/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpɹɑəbli/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
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    }
  ],
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}
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      "word": "certainly"
    },
    {
      "word": "definitely"
    },
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      "english": "sometimes synonymous",
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    },
    {
      "english": "sometimes synonymous",
      "word": "doubtless"
    },
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    },
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      "word": "indubitably"
    },
    {
      "word": "undoubtably"
    },
    {
      "word": "undoubtedly"
    },
    {
      "word": "unquestionably"
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    },
    {
      "word": "without doubt"
    }
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        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "probably"
      },
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      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "probabily"
      },
      "expansion": "probabily",
      "name": "m"
    },
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      "args": {
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        "2": "probable",
        "3": "ly"
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      "form": "more probably",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "most probably",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
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    }
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  "pos": "adv",
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        "English 3-syllable words",
        "English adverbs",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
        "English hedges",
        "English lemmas",
        "English modal adverbs",
        "English terms derived from Middle English",
        "English terms inherited from Middle English",
        "English terms suffixed with -ly",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Hebrew terms with redundant script codes",
        "Japanese terms with redundant script codes",
        "Khmer terms with redundant script codes",
        "Macedonian terms with redundant script codes",
        "Mandarin terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
        "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
        "Yiddish terms with non-redundant manual transliterations"
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          "ref": "1922, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest",
          "text": "“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes[…]. And then, when you see [the senders], you probably find that they are the most melancholy old folk with malignant diseases. […]”",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 May–June, William E. Conner, “An Acoustic Arms Race”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, pages 206–7",
          "text": "Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close[…]above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them. Many insects probably use this strategy, which is a close analogy to crypsis in the visible world—camouflage and other methods for blending into one’s visual background.",
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        }
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        "In all likelihood."
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        [
          "In all likelihood",
          "in all likelihood"
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      "ipa": "/ˈpɹɒbəbli/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpɹɒbli/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpɹɑbəbli/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpɹɑbli/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpɹɑəbli/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
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      "word": "as like as not"
    },
    {
      "word": "as likely as not"
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      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ],
      "word": "belike"
    },
    {
      "word": "haply"
    },
    {
      "word": "in all likelihood"
    },
    {
      "word": "in all probability"
    },
    {
      "word": "likely"
    },
    {
      "word": "maybe"
    },
    {
      "word": "perchance"
    },
    {
      "word": "perhaps"
    },
    {
      "word": "possibly"
    },
    {
      "word": "presumably"
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    {
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
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    {
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "slang"
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    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Internet",
        "Leet"
      ],
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      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "min al-muḥtamal",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "مِن اَلْمُحْتَمَل"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "rubbamā",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "رُبَّمَا"
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    {
      "code": "acw",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ʕala alʼaḡlab",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "tags": [
        "Hijazi-Arabic"
      ],
      "word": "على الأغلب"
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    {
      "code": "acw",
      "lang": "Arabic",
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      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "tags": [
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    {
      "code": "ary",
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      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "tags": [
        "Moroccan-Arabic"
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      "word": "وقيل"
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    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "havanabar",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "հավանաբար"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "yəqin"
    },
    {
      "code": "eu",
      "lang": "Basque",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "seguraski"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "vjerahódna",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "вераго́дна"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "napéŭna",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "напэ́ўна"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "verojátno",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "вероя́тно"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "probablement"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "dàgài",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "大概"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "或許"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "huòxú",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "或许"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "pravděpodobně"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "asi"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "spíš"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "spíše"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "sandsynligvis"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "waarschijnlijk"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "verŝajne"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "kredeble"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "todennäköisesti"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "luultavasti"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "probablement"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "sans doute"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "sûrement"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "albat",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "ალბათ"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "wahrscheinlich"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "glaublich"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "pithanós",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "πιθανώς"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "mállon",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "μάλλον"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "kanir'é",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "כנראה"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "valószínűleg"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "líklega"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "sennilega"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "probable"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "mungkin"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "kemungkinan"
    },
    {
      "code": "ia",
      "lang": "Interlingua",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "probabilemente"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "english": "go",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "is dócha"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "probabilmente"
    },
    {
      "alt": "たぶん",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "tabun",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "多分"
    },
    {
      "alt": "じっちゅうはっく",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "jitchūhakku",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "十中八九"
    },
    {
      "alt": "おそらく",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "osoraku",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "恐らく"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "muk cie",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "មុខជា"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "ama",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "아마"
    },
    {
      "code": "ckb",
      "lang": "Central Kurdish",
      "roman": "lewaneye",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "لەوانەیە"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "probabiliter"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "fortasse"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "fortassis"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "droši vien"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "verojatno",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "веројатно"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "barangkali"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "puano"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "antakeligvis"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "trolig"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "sannsynlig"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "prawdopodobnie"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "przypuszczalnie"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "chyba"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "provavelmente"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "probabil"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "verojátno",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "вероя́тно"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "navérno",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "наве́рно"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "вероватно"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "вјероватно"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "веројатно"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "вјеројатно"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "verovatno"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "vjerovatno"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "verojatno"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "vjerojatno"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "pravdepodobne"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "verjetno"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "probablemente"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "seguro"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "sin duda"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "seguramente"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "nog"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "sannolikt"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "troligen"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "antagligen"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "förmodligen"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "troligtvis"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "baká"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "tâa jà",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "ท่าจะ"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "muhtemelen"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "her halde"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "pévno",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "пе́вно"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "imovírno",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "імові́рно"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "jmovírno",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "ймові́рно"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "có lẽ"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "có thể"
    },
    {
      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "luveratiko"
    },
    {
      "code": "wa",
      "lang": "Walloon",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "dandjreus"
    },
    {
      "code": "wa",
      "lang": "Walloon",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "probåbe"
    },
    {
      "code": "wa",
      "lang": "Walloon",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "azår"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "mistome",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "מסתּמא"
    },
    {
      "code": "esu",
      "english": "verbal postbase",
      "lang": "Yup'ik",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "-yugnarqe"
    },
    {
      "code": "zza",
      "lang": "Zazaki",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "teqez"
    },
    {
      "code": "zza",
      "lang": "Zazaki",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "mı het ke"
    },
    {
      "code": "zza",
      "lang": "Zazaki",
      "sense": "in all likelihood",
      "word": "muhtemelen"
    }
  ],
  "word": "probably"
}

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