What does likeliest mean?
Likeliest means (rare) superlative form of likely: most likely.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(rare) superlative form of likely: most likely.
... the common man of pleasure and the frivolous woman of fashion, still the wisest way to fuse their minds to union, the likeliest receipt for moral good and social comfort, would have been this course of foreign scenes, of new faces,[…]
Use likeliest when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Likeliest means (rare) superlative form of likely: most likely.
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
... the common man of pleasure and the frivolous woman of fashion, still the wisest way to fuse their minds to union, the likeliest receipt for moral good and social comfort, would have been this course of foreign scenes, of new faces,[…]
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