improbably

English

Etymology

From improbable +‎ -ly.

Adverb

improbably (comparative more improbably, superlative most improbably)

1. In an improbable manner; without probability.
   • 2012, William Matthews, The Tragedy of Arthur‎, University of California Press, page 68:

     […] and two enormous Scottish poems, the Buik of Alexander, which has been improbably ascribed to Barbour, and Sir Gilbert Hay's Buik of Alexander the Conquerour; one nearly complete Prose Life of Alexander and fragments of four others; a stanzaic translation of the Fuerres de Gadres which survives only in a fragment, the Romance of Cassamus, and three separate translations of the Secreta Secretorum.

Antonyms

• probably

Translations

in an improbable manner

Catalan: improbablement (ca) Czech: nepravděpodobně French: invraisemblablement (fr), improbablement (fr) German: unwahrscheinlich (de) Spanish: improbablemente (es) Volapük: neluveratiko

References

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “improbably”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.