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possibly

/pos-uh-blee/US // ˈpɒs ə bli //UK // (ˈpɒsɪblɪ) //

可能,可能是,也许,可能的

Related Words

perhaps也许,可能,可能是,也许是probably可能,大概,也许,或许likely有可能,有可能是,可能的,可能conceivably可想而知,可想而知的是,可以想象maybe也许,可能,或许,可能是perchance也许,可能,兴许,或许peradventure历险记,冒险,历险at all根本,根本上,根本就没有,根本没有by any means不择手段,不择手段地,不惜一切手段,不惜一切代价

Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : perhaps; maybe: It may possibly rain today.
    • : in a possible manner: She has all the money she can possibly use.
    • : by any possibility: Could you possibly check this information for me?

Synonyms & Antonyms

adv.by chance; in some way
Synonyms
conceivably可想而知,可想而知的是,可以想象likely有可能,有可能是,可能的,可能perhaps也许,可能,可能是,也许是probably可能,大概,也许,或许maybe也许,可能,或许,可能是peradventure历险记,冒险,历险perchance也许,可能,兴许,或许god willing上帝保佑,愿主保佑,神的旨意at all根本,根本上,根本就没有,根本没有by any chance万一,顺便说一下,随便,刚好by any means不择手段,不择手段地,不惜一切手段,不惜一切代价could be可以是,可能是,可以,将是if possible如果可能的话,如有可能,如果可能,如果可以的话in any way以任何方式,无论如何,以任何形式,以任何方式进行not impossibly不是不可能的,不是不可能,并非不可能,不可能的within realm of possibility可能的范围内,有可能,有可能实现,有可能的

Examples

  • If, however, you find that you aren’t all that concerned with becoming the biggest you can possibly be, then the resolution of this fight could very well be walking away altogether.

  • “We are at—possibly—the loneliest time in human history,” Chesky declares.

  • One day we were talking how that could possibly happen and how much effort it would take to be a con man and keep all the stories straight.

  • The positives outweigh the negatives, but you can’t possibly be the first and think that it’s going to go swimmingly for you.

  • It seems like a lot of clients are possibly in some kind of internal fight to get budgets signed off.

  • Meanwhile, in Florida, Bush was flooded with questions about whether gay marriage could possibly come to the Sunshine State.

  • Who among Scalise's constituents could possibly care if he supported naming a post office for a black judge who died in 1988?

  • Within hours, thousands of Iranians challenged the foreign minister on social media asking how that could possibly be.

  • Hollywood might possibly fear North Korean sleeper cells capable of blowing up theaters that screen anti-Nork films.

  • Their reward: what is possibly the most infuriating series finale of the new millennium.

  • Davy walked through the door-way and found himself in the oddest-looking little country place that could possibly be imagined.

  • It is probable that Mlle. Mayer came under the influence of Prud'hon as early as 1802, possibly before that time.

  • Alice Arden, you little dream of the man and the route by which, possibly, deliverance is speeding to you.

  • Possibly, he would not shy at such monstrosities after twenty miles of a lathering ride.

  • He could not possibly doubt or question, and shame flooded him till he felt himself the meanest man alive.

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