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Definition of Likeliest

Likeliest
Likely Like"ly, a. [Compar. Likelier (l[imac]k"l[i^]*[~e]r); superl. Likeliest.] [That is, like-like. See Like, a.] 1. Worthy of belief; probable; credible; as, a likely story. It seems likely that he was in hope of being busy and conspicuous. --Johnson. 2. Having probability; having or giving reason to expect; -- followed by the infinitive; as, it is likely to rain. 3. Similar; like; alike. [Obs.] --Spenser. 4. Such as suits; good-looking; pleasing; agreeable; handsome. --Shak. Milton. 5. Having such qualities as make success probable; well adapted to the place; promising; as, a likely young man; a likely servant.

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- The number of dwarf planets in the Solar System is unknown. Estimates have run as high as 200 in the Kuiper belt and over 10,000 in the region beyond....
- of "Occam's razor": The simplest theory that explains the data is the likeliest. Therefore, according to Occam's razor principle, a learner must be designed...
- he held the office of praetor. Both his children were still young. The likeliest year of his death is 124. In his Meditations, Marcus Aurelius, who was...
- 20,000, 30,000 or 50,000 infantry, 2,000 to 4,000 cavalry, 200, 130 ("likeliest" according to Green), or 85 war elephants, 1,000 chariots. Casualties...
- evolve and survive, obeying the natural selection process "survival of the likeliest". According to Murray Rothbard, Zhuangzi (369–286 BCE) was the first to...
- from the Global Challenges Foundation. The general public believed the likeliest cause would be nuclear war, while experts thought it would be artificial...
- modification brings previously isolated species into contact. Extinction is likeliest for rare species coming into contact with more abundant ones; interbreeding...
- (mainly troglobites) have no functional eyes at all. In what is seen as the likeliest ancestral arrangement of the eyes of the Araneae, there are two roughly...
- dependence on Sudan and toward the EAC. Reuters considered South Sudan the likeliest candidate for EAC expansion in the short term, and an article in Tanzanian...
- melodramatic 1972 hit." Stephen Holden of Rolling Stone called this song "likeliest contender" for ballads like "I Will Always Love You" praising how "Carey...
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