Word Finder - possibly

definition

(modifying a clause or predicate) Perhaps; indicates that the proposition may be true (is not certainly false) regardless of any facts or circumstances known to, stated by or implied by the speaker.

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It was possibly the costliest mistake in the organization's history.

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(modifying a verb) In the realm of possibility; indicates that the action may successfully be performed (is not impossible) regardless of any facts or circumstances known to, stated by or implied by the speaker that might limit the performance.

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I couldn't possibly be there on time.

I couldn't possibly do it.

How could she possibly win in the next five?

Jackson wondered, could I possibly smell as incredible to her as she does to me?

Possibly he was searching for a response.

Could I possibly come see you?

How could he possibly understand?

Possibly in answer to her prayers, the front of the car climbed into the air.

We would restrict our altruistic activity to weekends and possibly an evening or two a week by phone, if it worked.

Nothing was truly resolved except possibly the hostility between them.

The world grew loud, with voices jumbling with the sound of equipment and possibly the thump of a helicopter.

You can't possibly sleep as soundly as you do when you're human.

You can't possibly have somewhere else to be.

How could it possibly be?

From those adventures, though, I did learn (the hard way) to think ahead about what could possibly go wrong.

Possibly, but I'm still sorry.

She kept looking at them, possibly wondering what was causing such pain.

How could I possibly know?

The area beyond the gates and inspections was quiet, with men and women dressed in government uniforms touring the compound like it was any other day and not possibly the last day of the world.

At five-nine, he seemed tall to her – probably because she was so short, but possibly because he was so well proportioned.

Bind him, Lavrushka! shouted Rostov, as if that order, too, could not possibly meet with any opposition.

Unwilling to alarm them and possibly end up stabbed, he pretended not to know and moved through the room.

Possibly. It might be an early indication.

What kind of secret could you possibly have?

The seventh, VII, is anterior to the genital operculum, op, and is the cavity of the praegenital somite which is more or less completely suppressed in subsequent development, possibly indicated by the area marked VII in fig.

The Jewish element appears to have' been important among the students, and possibly among the professors.

This narrative of the Baptist's birth seems to embody some very primitive features, Hebraic and Palestinian in character, and possibly at one time independent of the Christian tradition.

The northern and southern varieties are closely related to each other, differing considerably from the central, which shows more marked affinities with the Kordofan Nuba, possibly because the Saidokki people are later arrivals from Kordofan.

Morris, in The Defence of Guinevere, speaks of "gloomy Gawain"; perhaps the most absurdly misleading epithet which could possibly have been applied to the "gay, gratious, and gude" knight of early English tradition.

Of Deane's early life nothing is accurately known, but he seems to have had some sea training, possibly on a ship-of-war.

After the republican Government seemed fairly established, and the reign of law and order was being restored, he returned; but, possibly on account of his advanced age, did not appear during 1921 to be taking any further part in political intrigue or agitation.

Of these pre-Wycliffite versions possibly the earliest is the West Midland Psalter, once erroneously ascribed to William of Shoreham.

Two impressions, the quarto having possibly been completed by Schoeffer, arrived in England early in the summer of 1526, and were eagerly welcomed and bought.

Having reached the left flank, instead of going to the front where the firing was, he began to look for the general and his staff where they could not possibly be, and so did not deliver the order.

Rostov, having finally settled with "Uncle" where they should set on the hounds, and having shown Natasha where she was to stand--a spot where nothing could possibly run out--went round above the ravine.

What could this man possibly know that her father needed?

You are a deity without a domain or source of power, which means you have nothing I could possibly want, Darkyn said.

I cannot possibly have anything you want.

She laughed, knowing he couldn't possibly understand why she found it funny.

Chap. vi., which describes a vision of Isaiah "in the death-year of King Uzziah" (740 or 734 B.C.?) may possibly have arisen out of notes put down in the reign of Jotham; but for several reasons it is not an acceptable view that, in its present form, this striking chapter is earlier than the reign of Ahaz.

The refractive indices of all glasses at present available lie between 1.46 and 1 90, whereas transparent minerals are known having refractive indices lying considerably outside these limits; at least one of these, fluorite (calcium fluoride), is actually used by opticians in the construction of certain lenses, so that probably progress is to be looked for in a considerable widening of the limits of available optical materials; possibly such progress may lie in the direction of the artificial production of large mineral crystals.

The furnishings were of a dark wood, possibly cherry, with hand carved designs.

In return for this aid the younger Henry granted to William the earldom of Northumberland, a possession which the latter had vainly sought from the English king, and which was possibly the cause of their first estrangement.

At this point in the Haram enclosure there is an enormous underground cistern, known as the Great Sea, and this may possibly have been the source of water supply for the Greek garrison.

In a letter to the city, possibly written by Cromwell himself, the officers repudiated any wish to alter the civil government or upset the establishment of Presbyterianism, but demanded religious toleration.

The Portuguese were expelled by Fasilidas, but his castle was built, by Indian workmen, under the superintendence of Abyssinians who had learned something of architecture from the Portuguese adventurers, helped possibly by Portuguese still in the country.

The Australian land-surface must be of great antiquity, possibly Jurassic, and its isolation scarcely less ancient.

In 1861 he was ordained deacon, but he never took priest's orders, possibly because of a stammer which prevented reading aloud.

The direction of magnetic induction may be indicated by lines of induction; a line of induction is always a closed curve, though it may possibly extend to and return from infinity.

It would hardly be safe to generalize from these observations; the effects may possibly be dependent upon the physical condition of the metals.

The critical temperature (if there is one) was not reached in Faraday's experiment; possibly even the temperature of -250 C., which by the use of liquid hydrogen has now become accessible, might still be too high.