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for possible
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Possible \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.
[1913 Webster]
With God all things are possible. --Matt. xix.
26.
[1913 Webster]
Syn: Practicable; likely. See Practicable.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
possible
adj 1: capable of happening or existing; "a breakthrough may be
possible next year"; "anything is possible"; "warned of
possible consequences" [ant: impossible]
2: existing in possibility; "a potential problem"; "possible
uses of nuclear power" [syn: potential, possible] [ant:
actual, existent]
n 1: something that can be done; "politics is the art of the
possible"
2: an applicant who might be suitable
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
93 Moby Thesaurus words for "possible":
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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