Probably vs Expectedly - What's the difference?
probably | expectedly |
In all likelihood.
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, title= In an expected way; as expected; predictably.
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=February 18, author=Ben Brantley, title=When Adaptation Is Bold Innovation, work=New York Times
, passage=More expectedly (and successfully), the Royal Shakespeare Company offers up a “Richard III” that speaks to contemporary fears of the hatreds that breed fascism, with the eponymous crookback played (by the rising young actor Jonathan Slinger) as a festering skinhead who addresses the audience with the complicity of a caveman comic.}}
As adverbs the difference between probably and expectedly
is that probably is in all likelihood while expectedly is in an expected way; as expected; predictably.probably
English
Alternative forms
* (colloquial)Adverb
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Synonyms
* (in all likelihood) likely, perhaps, maybe, possibly, presumably, most likely, doubtless, in all probability, perchance, as likely as not, as like as notexpectedly
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Adverb
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