Definitions
Likely to happen or be true.
Word origin
From Middle English probable, from Old French probable, from Latin probābilis (“that may be proved, credible”), from probāre (“to test, examine”); see probe, probity, prove. Compare recent doublet provable.
Used in a sentence
“It's probable that it will rain tomorrow.”
“The probable source of the failure was the mass of feathers in the intake manifold.”
“A major accident and embezzlement of its funds seem to have been the only disasters it escaped; and as to the latter, the most probable reason is that it never had any quantity of funds worth embezzling.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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