IN ALL PROBABILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does in all probability mean? 

• IN ALL PROBABILITY (adverb)
  The adverb IN ALL PROBABILITY has 1 sense:

1. with considerable certainty; without much doubt

  Familiarity information: IN ALL PROBABILITY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IN ALL PROBABILITY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With considerable certainty; without much doubt

Synonyms:

belike; in all likelihood; in all probability; likely; probably

Context example:

in all likelihood we are headed for war

 Context examples 

Frosts will soon set in, and in all probability with severity.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Nay, more, in all probability, he does not know that such a power exists to us as can sterilise his lairs, so that he cannot use them as of old.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

There will be enough of them, in all probability, to supply every sort of sensation that declining life can need.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

‘It was there at the Norman Conquest in all probability,’ he answered.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Nothing at all, in all probability,” answered my uncle.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Either of them would, in all probability, make him an affectionate, good-humoured wife.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

So they finally departed, grumbling greatly that in all probability, if the thing were so, he had neglected to cut up the carcasses.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

It would be the last—in all probability—the last scene on that stage; but he was sure there could not be a finer.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I felt cold and dismayed: my worst fears then were probably true: he had in all probability left England and rushed in reckless desperation to some former haunt on the Continent.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

But, said Traddles, the surplus that would be left as his means of support—and I suppose the house to be sold, even in saying this—would be so small, not exceeding in all probability some hundreds of pounds, that perhaps, Miss Wickfield, it would be best to consider whether he might not retain his agency of the estate to which he has so long been receiver.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)