possibly
by chance
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,320 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 13,863 times across 175,112 chapters — 0.007% of every word in the library.
What it means
adverb
- by chance also: perchance, perhaps, maybe, mayhap, peradventure perhaps she will call tomorrowwe may possibly run into them at the concert
- to a degree possible of achievement or by possible means they can't possibly get here in time for the funeral?
possibly in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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And if there should be a Mrs. Arthur Tracy, with possibly some little Tracys!
Tracy Park: A Novel · Mary Jane Holmes · Chapter 1
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I No one can possibly imagine the unpleasantness of a honey-moon until they have tried it.
The Reflections of Ambrosine: A Novel · Elinor Glyn · Chapter 1
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I said I might possibly manage it if he would come down with the two hundred and fifty.
The Motormaniacs · Lloyd Osbourne · Chapter 1
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Nothing is known of this lady, except that her family may possibly have been very distantly connected with that of Fletcher.
Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Phillis - Licia · Martha Foote [Editor] Crow · Chapter 1
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All this troop set themselves to work and constructed the most charming, the lightest little aerial car that one can possibly imagine.
Piccolissima · Adélaïde de Montgolfier · Chapter 1