Certain and Likely

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Certain adjective - Impossible to avoid or evade.

Usage example: as he got older, the athlete began to feel the certain effects of the aging process on his body

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Likely and certain are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Likely" instead an adjective "Certain".

Nearby Words: certainty, certainly

Likely adjective - Having a high chance of occurring.

Usage example: if you don't graduate from high school, your likely fate is a low-paying job

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Certain and likely are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Certain" instead an adjective "Likely".

Nearby Word: like

This is likely an easily overlooked Shout-Out to the similar death of a certain Wookie in the New Jedi Order.

Source: Heroic Sacrifice / Video Games
Many Americans will most likely remember something similar happening at a certain university in 2006.

Source: Does This Remind You Of Anything / Web Comics
Then there's the matter of the backgrounds, which give us things like giant flowers or tombstones, and can make certain levels seem much larger than seems likely.

Source: Units Not to Scale

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