Possible

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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           With God all things are possible.        --Matt. xix.
                                                    26.
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     Syn: Practicable; likely. See {Practicable}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}] [ant: {actual}]
       3: possible to conceive or imagine; "that is one possible
          answer" [syn: {conceivable}, {imaginable}]
       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 [moby-thes]:

  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