Word Meanings - DISLIKELIHOOD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The want of likelihood; improbability. Sir W. Scott.

SCOTTICIZE
To cause to become like the Scotch; to make Scottish.
IMPROBABILITY
The quality or state of being improbable; unlikelihood; also, that which is improbable; an improbable event or result.
LIKELIHOOD
1. Appearance; show; sign; expression. What of his heart perceive you in his face By any likelihood he showed to-day Shak. 2. Likeness; resemblance. There is no likelihood between pure light and black darkness, or between righteousness
SCOTTISH
Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Scotland, their country, or their language; as, Scottish industry or economy; a Scottish chief; a Scottish dialect.
SCOTTISH TERRIER
See TERRIER
SCOTTERING
The burning of a wad of pease straw at the end of harvest.
SCOTTICISM
An idiom, or mode of expression, peculiar to Scotland or Scotchmen. That, in short, in which the Scotticism of Scotsmen most intimately consists, is the habit of emphasis. Masson.
UNLIKELIHOOD
Absence of likelihood.
DISLIKELIHOOD
The want of likelihood; improbability. Sir W. Scott.
MASCOT; MASCOTTE
A person who is supposed to bring good luck to the household to which he or she belongs; anything that brings good luck.