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FromMiddle Englishprobably,probabily, equivalent toprobable +‎-ly.

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Adverb

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probably (comparativemoreprobably,superlativemostprobably)

  1. In all likelihood.
    Synonyms:likely,in all probability,more than likely,belike(archaic)
    Coordinate terms:as like as not,as likely as not;possibly,maybe,perhaps,mayhap,mayhaps,perchance,haply;presumably;certainly,definitely,doubtless(sometimes synonymous),doubtlessly(sometimes synonymous),indubitably,undoubtably,undoubtedly,unquestionably,without a doubt,without doubt,indisputably
    Sheprobably has arrived by now.   =  She hasprobably arrived by now.   =  Probably she has arrived by now.
    He'llprobably arrive tomorrow.   =  Heprobably will arrive tomorrow.   =  Probably he'll arrive tomorrow.
    It isprobably too late for amends.   =  Itprobably is too late for amends.   =  Probably it is too late for amends.
    • 1921,Ben Travers, chapter 1, inA Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.:Doubleday, Page & Company, published1925,→OCLC:
      “[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes[…]. And then, when you see [the senders], youprobably find that they are the most melancholy old folk with malignant diseases.[…]”
    • 2013 May–June,William E. Conner, “An Acoustic Arms Race”, inAmerican Scientist, volume101, number 3, pages206–7:
      Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close[…]above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them. Many insectsprobably use this strategy, which is a close analogy to crypsis in the visible world—camouflage and other methods for blending into one’s visual background.

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in all likelihood
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