unlikely
adjective (NOT EXPECTED) /ʌnˈlaɪ.kli/Definition
› [only before noun] not the same as you would normally expect: He seems an unlikely-looking doctor (= he is not what I expect a doctor to look like).
(Definition of unlikely adjective (NOT EXPECTED) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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