WordNet
not very likely
adv. very unlikely [syn: in a pig's eye]
Usage examples of "not very likely".
He could, of course, be murdered by one of the ratlike autochthons of the planet, but that was not very likely.
A person with dung on his shoes or front stoop was not very likely to be convinced of a vast improvement in the environment, and the clattering of wooden carts the ringing of metal-rimmed wheels on cobblestone-could be as ear-wrenching as the hum and blare of motorized traffic.
Either there were some secret hiding places upon the island (which was not very likely) or else they had escaped in boats hidden somewhere among the tropical foliage.