- possibility
- I(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)Capability of being doneNouns — possibility, potentiality, likelihood, liability; what may be, what is possible; compatibility (see agreement); reasonability; reasonableness (see reasoning); practicability, expedience, feasibility, potency, workability, workableness, accessibility, attainability; contingency, latency, probability, chance, hazard, outlook. Informal, toss-up, show, outside chance.Verbs — be possible, stand a chance or show; admit of, bear; put in the way of; open up.Adjectives — possible, potential, in or on the cards or dice, within the bounds of possibility, in posse; conceivable, imaginable, credible, thinkable, reasonable, plausible, presumable; compatible (see agreement); practicable, feasible, negotiable, workable, performable, achievable, accessible, superable, surmountable, attainable, obtainable, expedient, within reach; contingent, probably, likely; in the running; latent. Informal, liable, earthly.Adverbs — possibly, by possibility; perhaps, perchance, peradventure; it may be, maybe, haply, mayhap; if [humanly] possible, [wind and] weather permitting, everything being equal, as luck may have it, God willing, Deo volente, DV. Informal, on the off-chance, could be.Quotations — Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible (Richard Sheridan), If it be possible, let this cup pass from me (Bible), With God all things are possible (Bible), Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable... the art of the next best (Otto von Bismarck), Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable (John Kenneth Galbraith).II(Roget's IV) n.1. [The condition of being possible]Syn. plausibility, feasibility, potentiality, likelihood; see chance 1 , probability .2. [A possible happening]Syn. hazard, chance, contingency, occasion, circumstance, hope, occurrence, fortuity, hap, happening, outside chance, incident, instance; see also accident 2 , event 1 , opportunity 1 .III(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.chance, likelihood, odds, feasibility, prospect, probablity, plausibility, eventuality, hazard.IV(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun 1. The likeliness of a given event occurring: chance, likelihood, odds, probability, prospect (used in plural). See LIKELY. 2. Something that may occur or be done: contingency, eventuality. See POSSIBLE.
English dictionary for students. 2013.