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probable 音標拼音: [pr'ɑbəbəl] n. 有希望的候選人,可能的事情
a. 很可能的,大概的,象真實的 有希望的候選人,可能的事情很可能的,大概的,象真實的 probable adj 1: likely but not certain to be or become true or real; " a likely result"; " he foresaw a probable loss" [ synonym: { probable}, { likely}] [ ant: { improbable}, { unlikely}] 2: apparently destined; " the probable consequences of going ahead with the scheme" n 1: an applicant likely to be chosenProbable \ Prob" a* ble\, a. [ L. probabilis, fr. probare to try, approve, prove: cf. F. probable. See { Prove}, and cf. { Provable}.] [ 1913 Webster] 1. Capable of being proved. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] 2. Having more evidence for than against; supported by evidence which inclines the mind to believe, but leaves some room for doubt; likely. [ 1913 Webster] That is accounted probable which has better arguments producible for it than can be brought against it. -- South. [ 1913 Webster] I do not say that the principles of religion are merely probable; I have before asserted them to be morally certain. -- Bp. Wilkins. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Rendering probable; supporting, or giving ground for, belief, but not demonstrating; as, probable evidence; probable presumption. -- Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster] { Probable cause} ( Law), a reasonable ground of presumption that a charge is, or my be, well founded. { Probable error} ( of an observation, or of the mean of a number), that within which, taken positively and negatively, there is an even chance that the real error shall lie. Thus, if 3[ sec] is the probable error in a given case, the chances that the real error is greater than 3[ sec] are equal to the chances that it is less. The probable error is computed from the observations made, and is used to express their degree of accuracy. { The probable}, that which is within the bounds of probability; that which is not unnatural or preternatural; -- opposed to the marvelous. [ 1913 Webster] 90 Moby Thesaurus words for " probable": anticipatable, anticipated, apparent, approaching, apt, awaited, believable, calculable, cogitable, colorable, coming, conceivable, conceivably possible, contingent, credible, desired, destinal, destined, determined, divinable, due, earthly, emergent, eventual, evident, expected, extrapolated, fair, fatal, fated, fatidic, feasible, foreknowable, foreseeable, foreseen, foretellable, forthcoming, future, futuristic, hereafter, hoped- for, hopeful, humanly possible, illusory, imaginable, imminent, improbable, in prospect, in the cards, in view, indubitable, later, liable, likely, long- expected, mortal, most likely, nearing, odds- on, on the horizon, ostensible, overdue, planned, plausible, plotted, possible, potential, precognizable, predictable, predictable within limits, predicted, presumable, presumed, presumptive, projected, promised, promising, prophesied, prospective, rational, reasonable, seeming, statistically probable, thinkable, to come, to- be, ultimate, undoubted, unquestionable, verisimilar
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