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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Possible \Pos"si*ble\, adjective [F., fr. L. possibilis, fr. posse to be able, to have power; potis able, capable + esse to be. See {Potent}, {Am}, and cf. {Host} a landlord.] 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}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
possible
adjective
1: capable of happening or existing; "a breakthrough may be possible next year"; "anything is possible"; "warned of possible consequences" [ant: {impossible}]
2: existing in possibility; "a potential problem"; "possible uses of nuclear power" [syn: {potential}] [ant: {actual}]
3: possible to conceive or imagine; "that is one possible answer" [syn: {conceivable}, {imaginable}]
noun
1: something that can be done; "politics is the art of the possible"
2: an applicant who might be suitable
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
93 Moby Thesaurus words for "possible": accomplishable, achievable, admissible, advisable, algorismic, algorithmic, aliquot, attainable, available, between the lines, cardinal, cogitable, conceivable, conceivably possible, contingent, covert, credible, cryptic, decimal, delitescent, differential, digital, doable, dormant, earthly, esoteric, even, expedient, exponential, feasible, figural, figurate, figurative, finite, fractional, hibernating, hidden, humanly possible, imaginable, imaginary, impair, impossible, infinite, integral, irrational, latent, likely, logarithmic, logometric, lurking, mortal, muffled, mystic, negative, numeral, numerary, numerative, numeric, obfuscated, obscured, occult, odd, on, ordinal, pair, plausible, positive, potential, practicable, practical, prime, probable, radical, rational, reachable, real, realizable, reasonable, reciprocal, sleeping, submerged, submultiple, surd, tenable, thinkable, transcendental, under the surface, underlying, unmanifested, veiled, viable, virtual, workable
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