Meaning of POSSIBLE
| Pronunciation: | | 'pâsubul
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- [n] something that can be done; "politics is the art of the possible"
- [n] an applicant who might be suitable
- [adj] existing in possibility; "a potential problem"; "possible uses of nuclear poser"
- [adj] capable of happening or existing; "a breakthrough may be possible next year"; "anything is possible"; "warned of possible consequences"
- [adj] possible to conceive or imagine; "that is one possible answer"
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| | Synonyms: | | accomplishable, achievable, affirmable, allegeable, assertable, attainable, attemptable, come-at-able, conceivable, contingent, doable, feasible, fermentable, getable, gettable, imaginable, latent, mathematical, potential, practicable, realizable, researchable, viable, workable |
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| | Antonyms: | | actual, existent, impossible | | |
| | See Also: | | applicant, applier, likely, opening, possibility, possible action, practical, realistic, thinkable | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Pos"si*ble\, a. [F., fr. L. possibilis, fr. posse to
be able, to have power; potis able, capable + esse to be. See
{Potent}, {Am}, and cf. {Host} a landlord.]
Capable of existing or occurring, or of being conceived or
thought of; able to happen; capable of being done; not
contrary to the nature of things; -- sometimes used to
express extreme improbability; barely able to be, or to come
to pass; as, possibly he is honest, as it is possible that
Judas meant no wrong.
With God all things are possible. --Matt. xix.
26.
Syn: Practicable; likely. See {Practicable}.
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| | Related Terms: | | accomplishable, achievable, admissible, advisable, algorismic, algorithmic, aliquot, attainable, available, between the lines, cardinal, cogitable, conceivable, conceivably possible, contingent, covert, credible, cryptic, decimal, delitescent, differential, digital, doable, dormant, earthly, esoteric, even, expedient, exponential, feasible, figural, figurate, figurative, finite, fractional, hibernating, hidden, humanly possible, imaginable, imaginary, impair, impossible, infinite, integral, irrational, latent, likely, logarithmic, logometric, lurking, mortal, muffled, mystic, negative, numeral, numerary, numerative, numeric, obfuscated, obscured, occult, odd, on, ordinal, pair, plausible, positive, potential, practicable, practical, prime, probable, radical, rational, reachable, real, realizable, reasonable, reciprocal, sleeping, submerged, submultiple, surd, tenable, thinkable, transcendental, under the surface, underlying, unmanifested, veiled, viable, virtual, workable |
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