likely

Synonyms

auspicious, bright, encouraging, fair, golden, heartening, hopeful, optimistic, promising, propitious, rose-colored, roseate, rosy, upbeat;

Antonyms

bleak, dark, depressing, desperate, discouraging, disheartening, dismal, downbeat, dreary, gloomy, hopeless, inauspicious, pessimistic, unencouraging, unlikely, unpromising, unpropitious;

Near Antonyms

cheerless, comfortless;

doubtful, dubious, uncertain;

bearish, grim, negative, unfavorable;

funereal, glum, gray (also grey), miserable, wretched;

Related Words

cheering, comforting, reassuring, soothing;

assured, confident, decisive, doubtless, positive, sure, unhesitating;

beamish, bullish;

favorable, good;

Synonyms

assumably, doubtless, presumably, probably;

Antonyms

improbably;

Near Antonyms

implausibly, inconceivably, incredibly, unbelievably, unthinkably;

Related Words

maybe, mayhap, perchance, perhaps, possibly;

conceivably, imaginably, plausibly, practically, reasonably;

potentially;

assuredly, certainly, clearly, conclusively, decisively, definitely, definitively, indisputably, indubitably, positively, really, surely, truly, undeniably, undoubtedly, unquestionably;

presumedly, supposably, supposedly;

Phrases

as like as not (or like as not);