Usually means: Probable, with a good chance.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word Likely:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. likely: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. likely: Merriam-Webster
  3. likely, likely: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. likely: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. likely: Collins English Dictionary
  6. likely: Vocabulary.com
  7. Likely, likely: Wordnik
  8. likely: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Likely, likely: Wiktionary
  10. likely: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. likely: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. likely: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Likely, likely: Dictionary.com
  14. likely: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. likely: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Likely: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Likely: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. likely: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. likely: Rhymezone
  20. likely: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. likely: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. LIKELY: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  23. likely: FreeDictionary.org
  24. likely: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. likely: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. likely: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. likely: Legal dictionary
  2. likely: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. likely: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. likely: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. likely: Idioms

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Likely)

▸ adjective:  Probable; having a greater-than-even chance of occurring.
▸ adjective:  (as predicate, followed by to and infinitive) Reasonably to be expected; apparently destined, probable.
▸ adjective:  Appropriate, suitable; believable; promising, having a good potential.
▸ adjective:  Plausible; within the realm of credibility.
▸ adjective:  Leading with high probability to some specified outcome.
▸ adjective:  (archaic) Attractive; pleasant.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Similar; like; alike.
▸ noun:  Something or somebody considered likely.
▸ adverb:  (obsolete) Similarly.
▸ adverb:  Probably.
▸ noun:  A surname.
▸ noun:  A census-designated place in Modoc County, California, United States.

Similar:
probably, in all probability, probable, promising, plausible, potential, verisimilar, prospective, presumed, apt, more...

Opposite:
unlikely, improbable, doubtful, implausible, remote

Phrases:
most likely, not likely, a likely story, as likely as not, likely looking, more...

Adjectives:
most, how, very, least, distinctive, complete

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Similar:
probably, in all probability, probable, promising, plausible, potential, verisimilar, prospective, presumed, apt, more...

Opposite:
unlikely, improbable, doubtful, implausible, remote

Phrases:
most likely, not likely, a likely story, as likely as not, likely looking, not very likely, likely story, more than likely, The Likely Lads, Girl Most Likely, Isaiah Likely, more...

Adjectives:
most, how, very, least, distinctive, complete

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