See Also: Possibly(medicine)
possibly(dictionary)
possibly(dictionary)

possibly (iou)



possibly adverb. LME.
[from POSSIBLE + -LY2.]
In accordance with or within the range of possibility; by any existing power or means. Now usu. as an intensive with can or could. LME.
B. Pym Wondering whether such an occasion could possibly arise. I. Murdoch You couldn't possibly sew by this light.
According to what may be (as far as one knows); perhaps, maybe. Freq. as an intensive with may or might. E17.
T. Hardy I should like to come, and possibly may. H. C. J. Hunt Over our bacon and, possibly, eggs. Nature The few hominoid species..considered as possibly close to the direct line of human ancestry.