maybe
AdverbUS[mey-bee]/ˈmeɪbi/2 syllables
Open English WordNet
Adverb (1)
- by chance“perhaps she will call tomorrow”“we may possibly run into them at the concert”“it may peradventure be thought that there never was such a time”Synonyms: possiblyperchanceperhapsmayhapperadventure
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haphazardadjective
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Translations
Adverb indicating a lack of certainty
- Spanish
- quizá
- French
- peut-être
- German
- vielleicht
- Italian
- forse
- Portuguese
- talvez
- Turkish
- belki
- Russian
- мо́жет быть móžet bytʹ
- Arabic
- رُبَّمَا rubbamā
- Chinese
- 可能 kěnéng
- Japanese
- 多分 tabun
36 more languages
- Dutch
- misschien
- Polish
- może
- Swedish
- kanske
- Greek
- ίσως ísos
- Korean
- 아마도 amado
- Indonesian
- barangkali
- Vietnamese
- có lẽ
- Hungarian
- talán
- Portuguese (PT)
- talvez
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 可能 kěnéng
- Albanian
- ndoshta
- Breton
- marteze
- Catalan
- potser
- Corsican
- forse
- Czech
- možná
- Danish
- måske
- Esperanto
- eble
- Estonian
- võib-olla
- Finnish
- ehkä
- Georgian
- შესაძლოა šesaʒloa
- Hebrew
- אוּלַי ulái
- Icelandic
- kannski
- Kurdish
- dibe ku
- Latvian
- varbūt
- Lithuanian
- galbūt
- Malagasy
- angamba
- Norwegian
- kanskje
- Romanian
- poate
- Scottish Gaelic
- 's dòcha
- Serbo-Croatian
- možda
- Slovak
- možno
- Slovenian
- mogoče
- Swahili
- huenda
- Walloon
- kécfeye
- Welsh
- efallai
- Yiddish
- אפֿשר efsher
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
May′be adverb
Origin: For it may be.
Perhaps; possibly; peradventure.
Maybe the amorous count solicits her.— William Shakespeare
In a liberal and, maybe, somewhat reckless way.— Edward Burnett Tylor
May′be adjective
Possible; probable, but not sure. rare
Then add those maybe years thou hast to live.— Driden.
May′be noun
Possibility; uncertainty. rare
What they offer is mere maybe and shift.— Thomas Creech
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54