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Roget's Thesaurus

#470. Possibility

Nouns

possibility, potentiality; what may be, what is possible etc. adj.; compatibility etc. (agreement) 23. practicability, feasibility; practicableness etc. adj.. contingency, chance etc. 156.

Verbs

be possible etc. adj.; stand a chance; admit of, bear. render possible etc. adj.; put in the way of.

Adjectives

possible; in the cards, on the dice; in posse, within the bounds of possibility, conceivable, credible; compatible etc. 23; likely. practicable, feasible, performable, achievable; within reach, within measurable distance; accessible, superable, surmountable; attainable, obtainable; contingent etc. (doubtful) 475, (effect) 154. barely possible, marginally possible, just possible; possible but improbably, (improbable) 473; theoretically possible.

Adverbs

possibly, by possibility; perhaps, perchance, peradventure; maybe, may be, haply, mayhap. if possible, wind and weather permitting, God willing, Deo volente [Lat.], D.V.; as luck may have it.

Phrases

misericordia Domini inter pontem et fontent [Lat.]; the glories of the Possible are ours [B. Taylor]; anything is possible; in theory possible, but in practice unlikely.


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