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likelier

ADJECTIVE

probable, apt, hopeful

Synonyms

STRONGEST

acceptable expected fair feasible inclined possible prone reasonable

WEAK

achievable anticipated assuring attainable believeable conceivable conjecturable credible destined disposed favorite given to imaginable in favor of in the cards in the habit of inferable liable odds-on on the verge of ostensible plausible practicable predisposed presumable promising rational seeming subject to supposable tending thinkable true up-and-coming verisimilar workable

Antonyms

STRONGEST

impossible unlikely unreasonable

WEAK

implausible inapt unforeseeable

Example Sentences

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We fill ourselves with ancient learning, install ourselves the best we can in Greek, in Punic, in Roman houses, only that we may wiselier see French, English and American houses and modes of living.

From Essays — First Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

If one parent or one uncle buys the wiselier for me, I shall not altogether have lived in vain.

From Floor Games; a companion volume to "Little Wars" by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

No sympathy could be better deserved, no efforts wiselier timed.

From Woman in the Ninteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman. by Fuller, Margaret

You have taught me wiselier about her out of your own mouth.

From The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

Those six clear days of theirs had been wiselier spent upon the west road; but Richard's desire outmastered every thought.

From The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay by Hewlett, Maurice Henry