Word Meanings - POSSIBLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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;

Additional info about word: POSSIBLE

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. With God all things are possible. Matt. xix. 26. Syn. -- Practicable; likely. See Practicable. (more info) have power; potis able, capable + esse to be. See Potent, Am, and cf.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of POSSIBLE)

• Feasible
• Possible
• manageable
• contrivable
• permissible
• practicable
• Easy
• feasible
• possible
• docile
• tractable
• Potential
• implicit
• undeveloped
• germinative
• immanent
• virtual
• Practicable
• usable
• Superable
• surmountable

Related words: (words related to POSSIBLE)

• IMPLICITNESS
  State or quality of being implicit.
• IMPLICITY
  Implicitness. Cotgrave.
• POTENTIAL
  1. Being potent; endowed with energy adequate to a result; efficacious; influential. "And hath in his effect a voice potential." Shak. 2. Existing in possibility, not in actuality. "A potential hero." Carlyle. Potential existence means merely
• MANAGEABLE
  Such as can be managed or used; suffering control; governable; tractable; subservient; as, a manageable horse. Syn. -- Governable; tractable; controllable; docile. -- Man"age*a*ble*ness, n. -- Man"age*a*bly, adv.
• POTENTIALITY
  The quality or state of being potential; possibility, not actuality; inherent capability or disposition, not actually exhibited.
• GERMINATIVE
  Pertaining to germination; having power to bud or develop. Germinative spot, Germinative vesicle. Same as Germinal spot, Germinal vesicle, under Germinal.
• POTENTIALLY
  1. With power; potently. 2. In a potential manner; possibly, not positively. The duration of human souls is only potentially infinite. Bentley.
• IMPLICITLY
  1. In an implicit manner; without reserve; with unreserved confidence. Not to dispute the methods of his providence, but humbly and implicitly to acquiesce in and adore them. Atterbury. 2. By implication; impliedly; as, to deny the providence of
• IMPLICIT
  1. Infolded; entangled; complicated; involved. Milton. In his woolly fleece I cling implicit. Pope. 2. Tacitly comprised; fairly to be understood, though not expressed in words; implied; as, an implicit contract or agreement. South. 3. Resting
• CONTRIVABLE
  Capable of being contrived, planned, invented, or devised. A perpetual motion may seem easily contrivable. Bp. Wilkins.
• SUPERABLE
  Capable of being overcome or conquered; surmountable. Antipathies are generally superable by a single effort. Johnson. -- Su"per*a*ble*ness, n. -- Su"per*a*bly, adv.
• VIRTUAL
  1. Having the power of acting or of invisible efficacy without the agency of the material or sensible part; potential; energizing. Heat and cold have a virtual transition, without communication of substance. Bacon. Every kind that lives, Fomented
• POSSIBLE
  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;
• TRACTABLE
  1. Capable of being easily led, taught, or managed; docile; manageable; governable; as, tractable children; a tractable learner. I shall find them tractable enough. Shak. 2. Capable of being handled; palpable; practicable; feasible; as, tractable
• SURMOUNTABLE
  Capable of being surmounted or overcome; superable. -- Sur*mount"a*ble*ness, n.
• VIRTUALLY
  In a virtual manner; in efficacy or effect only, and not actually; to all intents and purposes; practically.
• FEASIBLE
  1. Capable of being done, executed, or effected; practicable. Always existing before their eyes as a thing feasible in practice. Burke. It was not feasible to gratify so many ambitions. Beaconsfield. 2. Fit to be used or tailed, as land.
• VIRTUALITY
  1. The quality or state of being virtual. 2. Potentiality; efficacy; potential existence. In one grain of corn, there lieth dormant a virtuality of many other. Sir T. Browne.
• DOCILE
  1. Teachable; easy to teach; docible. 2. Disposed to be taught; tractable; easily managed; as, a docile child. The elephant is at once docible and docile. C. J. Smith.
• PERMISSIBLE
  That may be permitted; allowable; admissible. -- Per*mis"si*ble*ness, n. -- Per*mis"si*bly, adv.
• EQUIPOTENTIAL
  Having the same potential. Equipotential surface, a surface for which the potential is for all points of the surface constant. Level surfaces on the earth are equipotential.
• INDEFEASIBLE
  Not to be defeated; not defeasible; incapable of being annulled or made void; as, an indefeasible or title. That the king had a divine and an indefeasible right to the regal power. Macaulay.
• INEXCUSABLE
  Not excusable; not admitting excuse or justification; as, inexcusable folly. Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest; for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same
• UNEXCUSABLE
  Inexcusable. Hayward. -- Un`ex*cus"a*ble*ness, n.
• EXTRACTABLE; EXTRACTIBLE
  Capable of being extracted.
• COMPOSSIBLE
  Able to exist with another thing; consistent. Chillingworth.
• IRRECUSABLE
  Not liable to exception or rejection. Sir W. Hamilton. (more info) recusabilis that should be rejected, fr. recusare to reject: cf. F.
• REFUSABLE
  Capable of being refused; admitting of refusal.
• CONUSABLE
  Cognizable; liable to be tried or judged. Bp. Barlow.
• INSUPERABLE
  Incapable of being passed over or surmounted; insurmountable; as, insuperable difficulties. And middle natures, how they long to join, Yet never pass the insuperable line Pope. The difficulty is enhanced, or is . . . insuperable. I. Taylor. Syn.
• SIMPLICITY
  1. The quality or state of being simple, unmixed, or uncompounded; as, the simplicity of metals or of earths. 2. The quality or state of being not complex, or of consisting of few parts; as, the simplicity of a machine. 3. Artlessness of mind;
• INEXSUPERABLE
  Not capable of being passed over; insuperable; insurmountable. (more info) exsuperabilis that may be surmounted. See In- not, Ex-, and