English > possible: 4 senses > adjective 1| Meaning | capable of happening / happening or existing. |
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| Examples | - "a breakthrough may be possible next year"
- "anything is possible"
- "warned of possible consequences"
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| Attribute of | possibility, possibleness | capability of existing or happening / happening / happening or being true |
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| Narrower | accomplishable, achievable, doable, manageable, realizable | capable of existing or taking place or proving true |
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| affirmable, assertable | capable of being affirmed or asserted |
| attainable, come-at-able | capable of being attained or accomplished |
| contingent | possible but not certain to occur |
| feasible, executable, practicable, viable, workable | capable of being done with means / means at hand and circumstances as they are |
| mathematical | statistically possible though highly improbable |
| See also | likely | Has a good chance of being the case or of coming about |
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| practical | concerned with actual use or practice |
| realistic | Aware or expressing awareness of things as they really are |
| thinkable | capable of being conceived or imagined or considered |
| Opposite | impossible | not capable of occurring or being accomplished / accomplished or dealt with |
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| Spanish | posible |
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| Catalan | possible |
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| Nouns | possibility, possibleness | capability of existing or happening / happening / happening or being true |
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| Adverbs | possibly | to a degree possible of achievement or by possible means |
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