Likely
Likely adjective - Having a high chance of occurring.
Subordinate and likely are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Subordinate" instead an adjective "Likely".
Nearby Word: like
Subordinate
Subordinate adjective - Having not so great importance or rank as another.
Likely and subordinate are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Likely" instead an adjective "Subordinate".
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- When his subordinate warns him that doing so would likely kill them all, he replies that since he's never gone through a Fractal Core before, he does not know that with certainty.
Source: The Mob Boss Is Scarier -
Damned by Faint Praise: As part of his Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra, Bill quotes a passage from The Sprightly Companion which describes the sound of an oboe as 'not much inferior to the trumpet'.note The author most likely meant the word in the sense of "subordinate" rather than "worse".
Source: Music / Bill Bailey - When his subordinate (and Love Interest) points out that this means Mustang will most likely be tried as a war criminal himself and sent off to prison, Mustang states that that was his plan all along.
Source: Karma Houdini Warranty
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