improbably
adverb/ɪmˈprɒbəbli/
/ɪmˈprɑːbəbli/
- used for saying that something is not likely to be true or to happen
- He claimed, improbably, that he had never been there.
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- in a way that is strange because it is not what you would expect synonym unexpectedly
- an improbably happy ending
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