Estimated vs Probable - What's the difference?
estimated | probable |
(estimate)
* {{quote-book, year=2006, author=
, title=Internal Combustion
, chapter=2 Likely or most likely to be true.
Likely to happen.
Supporting, or giving ground for, belief, but not demonstrating.
(obsolete) Capable of being proved.
As a verb estimated
is past tense of estimate.As an adjective probable is
likely or most likely to be true.estimated
English
Verb
(head)citation, passage=Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.}}
Synonyms
* (abbreviation)Anagrams
*probable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- It's probable that it will rain tomorrow.
- The probable source of the failure was the mass of feathers in the intake manifold.
- With all the support we have, success is looking probable .
- probable''' evidence; '''probable presumption
- (Blackstone)