Definition of possibly

"possibly" in the adverb sense

1. possibly, perchance, perhaps, maybe, mayhap, peradventure

by chance

"perhaps she will call tomorrow"

"we may possibly run into them at the concert"

"it may peradventure be thought that there never was such a time"

2. possibly

to a degree possible of achievement or by possible means

"they can't possibly get here in time for the funeral?"

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Quotations for possibly

Possibly; in possibility.

A cripple may possibly catch a hare. [ Proverb ]

There cannot possibly be friendship without virtue. [ Sall ]

Honest men and knaves may possibly wear the same cloth. [ Proverb ]

The loss of reputation is greater than can be possibly estimated. [ Livy ]

Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never have happened and couldn't possibly have happened. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]

Luxury possibly may contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor. [ H. Home ]

No man can possibly improve in any company for which he has not respect enough to be under some degree of restraint. [ Chesterfield ]

Discipline: doing what you have to do, and doing it as well as you possibly can, and doing it that way all the time. [ Bobby Knight ]

For the bow cannot possibly stand always bent, nor can human nature or human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation. [ Cervantes ]

A rich dress adds but little to the beauty of a person. It may possibly create a deference, but that is rather an enemy to love. [ Shenstone ]

Jesus wept once; possibly more than once. There are times when God asks nothing of His children except silence, patience, and tears. [ Charles S. Robinson ]

A mother is as different from anything else that God ever thought of, as can possibly be. She is a distinct and individual creation. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body. It preserves a constant ease and serenity within us, and more than countervails all the calamities and affections which can possibly befall us. [ Addison ]

No improvement that takes place if either sex can possibly be confined to itself. Each is a universal mirror to each, and the respective refinement of the one will always be in. reciprocal proportion to the polish of the other. [ Colton ]

There are circumstances of peculiar difficulty and danger, where a mediocrity of talent is the most fatal quantum that a man can possibly possess. Had Charles the First and Louis the Sixteenth been more wise or more weak, more firm or more yielding, in either case they had both of them saved their heads. [ Colton ]

As a science, logic institutes an analysis of the process of the mind in reasoning, and investigating the principles on which argumentation is conducted; as an art, it furnishes such rules as may be derived from those principles, for guarding against erroneous deductions. Some are disposed to view logic as a peculiar method of reasoning, and not as it is, a method of unfolding and analysing our reason. They have, in short, considered logic as an art of reasoning. The logician's object being, not to lay down principles by which one may reason, but by which all must reason, even though they are not distinctly aware of them - to lay down rules not which may be followed with advantage, but which cannot possibly be deviated from in sound reasoning. [ R. Whately ]

possibly in Scrabble®

The word possibly is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 15

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters possibly:

POSSIBLY
(144)
POSSIBLY
(144)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

bossily

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word possibly

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In possibly

POSSIBLY
(144)
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BOSSILY
(98 = 48 + 50)
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(96)
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(96)
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possibly in Words With Friends™

The word possibly is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 17

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters possibly:

POSSIBLY
(114)
POSSIBLY
(114)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

bossily

 

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(114)
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(114)
POSSIBLY
(114)
BOSSILY
(104 = 69 + 35)
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(98 = 63 + 35)
BOSSILY
(98 = 63 + 35)
POSSIBLY
(93)
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(92 = 57 + 35)
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(87 = 52 + 35)
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(84)
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(81)
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(80 = 45 + 35)
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(68)
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BLIPS
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(60)
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(58 = 23 + 35)
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(57)
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(57)
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