{
    "term": "probable",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "likely to happen, to exist or to be true",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the probable cause/explanation/outcome"
                },
                {
                    "text": "**highly/quite/most probable**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "**It is probable that** the disease has a genetic element."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The two outcomes are equally probable."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The probable cause of the fire was an electrical fault."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It is quite probable that they will call an election next spring."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Doubt, guessing and certainty"],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "look", "seem"],
                "adverb": ["highly", "very", "increasingly"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈprɒbəbl/",
                "audio": "pr/probable/probable__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈprɑːbəbl/",
                "audio": "pr/probable/probable__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English (in the sense ‘worthy of belief’): via Old French from Latin probabilis, from probare ‘to test, demonstrate’."
}