Meaning & use
Likelier
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More likely; having a greater probability of happening or being true.
See it in a sentence
Rain seems likelier this afternoon than it did this morning.
There's a likelier explanation for the missing keys than theft.
A note on using this word
Likelier is a somewhat informal comparative of 'likely,' more common in speech than 'more likely,' though both are grammatically correct.
Words with a similar meaning
more probablemore plausible
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Words with an opposite meaning
unlikelier
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