What does likely mean in English?

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0 If something is likely, it will probably happen or is expected:
- Do remind me because I'm likely to forget.
- What's the likely outcome of this whole business?
- I suppose that might happen but it's not very likely.
- [ + that ] It's quite likely that we'll be in Spain this time next year.
1 probably:
- She will likely need surgery.
- As likely as not, she'll end up in court over this problem.
- Most likely he'll turn up late.
- "Do you want to come running with me?" "Not likely!"
2 expected to happen; probable:
- [ + to infinitive ] If I don’t write it down, I’m likely to forget.
3 probably:
- I’ll most likely get there at about ten o’clock.

Children from an underprivileged family background are statistically more likely to become involved in crime.
She made a rough estimate of the likely cost.
Disney's latest production looks likely to be their most successful ever.
It is likely that the suspects have left the country by now.
The study showed that one in twelve women is likely to develop breast cancer.
Their youth means that they are likely to be present in the human population in an 'unfixed' (heterozygous) state and in a relatively small population.
Determination of which positions are likely to be disease associated is a challenging and important problem.
While strong periodicities from random records are unlikely, the presence of weaker pseudoperiodicity in a noisy signal is more likely.

0 Be likely to

Be likely to is used to talk about how probable things are:
1 Likely and unlikely

Likely and unlikely are adjectives. We use them to say that something will probably happen or not happen in the future. We can use them before a noun, or with the verbs be, seem and appear: