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possible

3 definitions found 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.
          [1913 Webster]

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