probable

[Prob·a*ble]

If it's probable, then odds are it's going to come true. If rain is probable this weekend, you shouldn't plan a picnic.

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Capable of being proved.

Noun
an applicant likely to be chosen

Adjective S.
apparently destined; "the probable consequences of going ahead with the scheme"

Adjective
likely but not certain to be or become true or real; "a likely result"; "he foresaw a probable loss"

a.
Capable of being proved.

a.
Having more evidence for than against; supported by evidence which inclines the mind to believe, but leaves some room for doubt; likely.

a.
Rendering probable; supporting, or giving ground for, belief, but not demonstrating; as, probable evidence; probable presumption.

Probable

Prob"a*ble , a. [L. probabilis, fr. probare to try, approve, prove: cf. F. probable. See Prove, and cf. Provable.] 1. Capable of being proved. [Obs.] 2. Having more evidence for than against; supported by evidence which inclines the mind to believe, but leaves some room for doubt; likely.

That is accounted probable which has better arguments producible for it than can be brought against it.

I do not say that the principles of religion are merely probable; I have before asserted them to be morally certain.

3. Rendering probable; supporting, or giving ground for, belief, but not demonstrating; as, probable evidence; probable presumption. Blackstone. 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.

Capable of being proved.

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Usage Examples

If governments let themselves be fully bound by the decisions of their parliaments without protecting their own freedom to act, a breakup of Europe would be a more probable outcome than deeper integration.

It is hard to say what the future holds, but this is probable - it won't be just like the past.

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Other Usage Examples

Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.

When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

Suicide is possible, but not probable hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment.