IV. WORDS RELATING TO THE INTELLECTUAL FACULTIES; FORMATION OF IDEAS

Ill. MATERIALS FOR REASONING

Degrees of Evidence

[Antonyms: probability.]

[Nouns] improbability, unlikelihood; unfavorable chance, bad chance, ghost of a chance, little chance, small chance, poor chance, scarcely any chance, no chance; bare possibility; long odds; incredibility [more].

[Verbs] be improbable; have a small chance

[Adjectives] improbable, unlikely, contrary to all reasonable expectation.

rare (infrequent) [more]; unheard of, inconceivable; unimaginable, inimaginable; incredible [more]; more than doubtful.

[Phrases] the chances are against; aquila non capit muscas; pedir peras pal olmo.