possibly
AdverbUS[pos-uh-blee]/ˈpɑsəbli/3 syllables
Open English WordNet
Adverb (2)
- 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: perchanceperhapsmaybemayhapperadventure
- to a degree possible of achievement or by possible means“they can't possibly get here in time for the funeral?”Opposite impossiblyFrom possible
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Translations
Adverb perhaps, maybe
- Spanish
- posiblemente
- French
- peut-être
- German
- möglicherweise
- Italian
- forse
- Portuguese
- possivelmente
- Turkish
- belki
- Dutch
- mogelijk
- Swedish
- möjligen
- Vietnamese
- có thể
- Hungarian
- lehetőleg
13 more languages
- Portuguese (PT)
- possivelmente
- Albanian
- mbase
- Catalan
- possiblement
- Danish
- muligvis
- Esperanto
- eble
- Finnish
- mahdollisesti
- Georgian
- შესაძლოა šesaʒloa
- Romanian
- posibil
- Scottish Gaelic
- 's dòcha
- Swahili
- labda
- Walloon
- kécfeye
- Welsh
- efallai
- Yiddish
- אפֿשר efszer
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Pos′si·bly adverb
In a possible manner; by possible means; especially, by extreme, remote, or improbable intervention, change, or exercise of power; by a chance; perhaps; as, possibly he may recover.
Can we... possibly his love desert?— John Milton
When possibly I can, I will return.— William Shakespeare
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54