With the person or thing affected by the probability as subject of a copular verb followed by infinitive or (in earlier use) of and gerund: having a…

Likely.

Having an appearance of truth; that may in view of present evidence be reasonably expected to happen or be the case; likely. Now the usual sense.

Admissible, valid; worthy of consideration; able to be acknowledged.

Probable, likely. Obsolete.

of things: Calculated, likely; habitually liable, ready.

Pertaining to a topic or general maxim; hence, not demonstrative but merely probable.

Likely, probable.

That may be suspected to be so; appearing probable or likely.

Able to be presumed or taken for granted; that may reasonably be assumed; likely, probable.

Of a proposition, theory, story, etc.: Likely, probable.

That one suspects to exist, or to be such; imagined possible or likely.

in the cards: likely or destined to happen, probable; possible. Now chiefly North American.

on the cards: likely or destined to happen, probable; possible.

in the dice: liable to turn up, as a contingent possibility (cf. on the cards at card, n.2 phrases 7b).

dialect and U.S. Likely.

Forming attributive phrases with than, as better-than-average, better-than-chance, etc.