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improbable

/im-prob-uh-buhl/US // ɪmˈprɒb ə bəl //UK // (ɪmˈprɒbəbəl) //

不可能的,不可能的事,不可能,不会的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : not probable; unlikely to be true or to happen: Rain is improbable tonight.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.not likely

Examples

  • Of course, any such speculation only underscores just how improbable Kipchoge’s win streak really was.

  • Allen has raised his ceiling this year, performing at a level many would have considered improbable before this season.

  • Earlier this month, before the Nuggets pulled off another improbable series comeback, I asked 7-footer Nikola Jokić about the patient, glacially paced style he uses on offense.

  • Of all the subcultures on Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram, this is one of the most improbable—and riskiest—to emerge.

  • That is to say, it is improbable that there would be a major polling error in Michigan that wouldn’t also be reflected in similar states such as Wisconsin and Ohio.

  • From this louche improbable source pours music of sublime beauty without one false note.

  • So the story was about those two characters reuniting and, in the most improbable circumstances, changing the world.

  • It may seem improbable now, but someday this experience will be behind us.

  • That leaves one other improbable but ultimately most likely culprit: a high-mass, low-temperature white dwarf.

  • Other Nel gems: “Your version is so improbable that it cannot be reasonably possible.”

  • Leaving Howlet and Meadows grinning at a highly improbable adventure, he slapped the boy on the shoulder.

  • One of the company observed that this was improbable, as Dr. Goldsmith had never been in that part of the country.

  • It is not improbable, however, that the movement may have been a serious attempt at a great flank attack on England.

  • Limited to Cycadeae, however, it does not appear to me so very improbable, as to deserve to be rejected without examination.

  • Rabbah was to be a sheep-fold, Babylon a menagerie of wild beasts—a very specific difference and very improbable.