Word Meanings - PROBABLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
In a probable manner; in likelihood. Distinguish between what may possibly and what will probably be done. L'Estrange.
Related words: (words related to PROBABLY)
- ESTRANGE
extraneare to treat as a stranger, from extraneus strange. See 1. To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and - ESTRANGER
One who estranges. - PROBABLE
1. Capable of being proved. 2. Having more evidence for than against; supported by evidence which inclines the mind to believe, but leaves some room for doubt; likely. That is accounted probable which has better arguments producible for it than - DISTINGUISH
di- = dis- + stinguere to quench, extinguish; prob. orig., to prick, and so akin to G. stechen, E. stick, and perh. sting. Cf. 1. Not set apart from others by visible marks; to make distinctive or discernible by exhibiting differences; to mark - MANNERIST
One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism. - DISTINGUISHABLE
1. Capable of being distinguished; separable; divisible; discernible; capable of recognition; as, a tree at a distance is distinguishable from a shrub. A simple idea being in itself uncompounded . . . is not distinguishable into different ideas. - DISTINGUISHMENT
Observation of difference; distinction. Graunt. - POSSIBLY
In a possible manner; by possible means; especially, by extreme, remote, or improbable intervention, change, or exercise of power; by a chance; perhaps; as, possibly he may recover. Can we . . . possibly his love desert Milton. When possibly I can, - MANNERISM
Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural - DISTINGUISHABLY
So as to be distinguished. - DISTINGUISHING
Constituting difference, or distinction from everything else; distinctive; peculiar; characteristic. The distinguishing doctrines of our holy religion. Locke. Distinguishing pennant , a special pennant by which any particular vessel in a fleet - ESTRANGEDNESS
State of being estranged; estrangement. Prynne. - DISTINGUISHABLENESS
The quality of being distinguishable. - LIKELIHOOD
1. Appearance; show; sign; expression. What of his heart perceive you in his face By any likelihood he showed to-day Shak. 2. Likeness; resemblance. There is no likelihood between pure light and black darkness, or between righteousness - DISTINGUISHINGLY
With distinction; with some mark of preference. Pope. - DISTINGUISHED
1. Marked; special. The most distinguished politeness. Mad. D' Arblay. 2. Separated from others by distinct difference; having, or indicating, superiority; eminent or known; illustrious; -- applied to persons and deeds. Syn. -- Marked; - PROBABLY
In a probable manner; in likelihood. Distinguish between what may possibly and what will probably be done. L'Estrange. - BETWEEN
betweónum; prefix be- by + a form fr. AS. twa two, akin to Goth. 1. In the space which separates; betwixt; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia. 2. Used in expressing motion from one body or place to another; from one to another of - DISTINGUISHER
1. One who, or that which, distinguishes or separates one thing from another by marks of diversity. Sir T. Browne. 2. One who discerns accurately the difference of things; a nice or judicious observer. Dryden. - ESTRANGEMENT
The act of estranging, or the state of being estranged; alienation. An estrangement from God. J. C. Shairp. A long estrangement from better things. South. - CONTRADISTINGUISH
To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke. - INDISTINGUISHABLE
Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form - UNMANNERLY
Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv. - INDISTINGUISHING
Making no difference; indiscriminative; impartial; as, indistinguishing liberalities. Johnson. - UNPROBABLY
Improbably. - GO-BETWEEN
An intermediate agent; a broker; a procurer; -- usually in a disparaging sense. Shak. - OVERMANNER
In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif. - UNLIKELIHOOD
Absence of likelihood.