Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Unlikely to take place or be true.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not probable; not likely to be true; not to be expected under the circumstances of the case.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not probable; unlikely to be true; not to be expected under the circumstances or in the usual course of events.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not likely to be true.
- adjective Not likely to happen.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having a probability too low to inspire belief
- adjective too improbable to admit of belief
- adjective not likely to be true or to occur or to have occurred
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The Massachusetts Democrat tells his version of the American rags to riches story, chronicling what he dubs his "improbable" rise from a broken home and poverty on the Chicago's South Side to the upper echelons of American politics.
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