IN ALL LIKELIHOOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does in all likelihood mean? 

• IN ALL LIKELIHOOD (adverb)
  The adverb IN ALL LIKELIHOOD has 1 sense:

1. with considerable certainty; without much doubt

  Familiarity information: IN ALL LIKELIHOOD used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IN ALL LIKELIHOOD (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With considerable certainty; without much doubt

Synonyms:

belike; in all likelihood; in all probability; likely; probably

Context example:

in all likelihood we are headed for war

 Context examples 

Your portion is unhappily so small that it will in all likelihood undo the effects of your loveliness and amiable qualifications.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

In that case, so liable as every body was to meet every body in Bath, Lady Russell would in all likelihood see him somewhere.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

It is possible the process of moon formation in Saturn's rings has ended with Peggy, as Saturn's rings now are, in all likelihood, too depleted to make more moons.

(Possible New Moon Forming Around Saturn, NASA)

In all likelihood, though, I should die before morning.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I do not know what I told her, he replied, impatiently; less than was due to the past, beyond a doubt, and in all likelihood much more than was justified by the future.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

It was not to be doubted that poor Harriet's attachment had been an offering to conjugal unreserve, and her own share in the story, under a colouring the least favourable to her and the most soothing to him, had in all likelihood been given also.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

It would be impossible to explain to Eleanor the suspicions, from which the other had, in all likelihood, been hitherto happily exempt; nor could she therefore, in her presence, search for those proofs of the general's cruelty, which however they might yet have escaped discovery, she felt confident of somewhere drawing forth, in the shape of some fragmented journal, continued to the last gasp.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

It now occurred to the girls that their mother was in all likelihood perfectly ignorant of what had happened.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I can now conjecture readily that this streak of light was, in all likelihood, a gleam from a lantern carried by some one across the lawn: but then, prepared as my mind was for horror, shaken as my nerves were by agitation, I thought the swift darting beam was a herald of some coming vision from another world.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I was told that not only your sister was on the point of being most advantageously married, but that you, that Miss Elizabeth Bennet, would, in all likelihood, be soon afterwards united to my nephew, my own nephew, Mr. Darcy.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)