FromMiddle English possible Old French possible Latin possibilis ( “ possible ” ) , fromposse, possum ( “ to be able ” ) ; seepower . DisplacedMiddle English acumendlic ( “ possible ” ) , fromOld English ācumendlīċ ( “ possible ” ) . Compare alsoOld English mihtelīċ ( “ strong, capable, powerful, possible ” ) , which was cognate withOld High German mahtlīh ( “ possible ” ) andOld Norse máttulígr ( “ mighty, possible ” ) . Compare alsoDutch mogelijk ( “ possible ” ) andGerman möglich ( “ possible ” ) .
possible (comparative morepossible ,superlative mostpossible )
( usually not comparable ) Able but notcertain to happen; neitherinevitable norimpossible .Synonyms: futurable see also Thesaurus:possible Antonyms: certain inevitable impossible Rain tomorrow ispossible , but I wouldn't bet on it.
It's not justpossible , it's probable that there will be rain tomorrow.
1897 December (indicated as1898 ),Winston Churchill , chapter VIII, inThe Celebrity: An Episode The Macmillan Company ; London:Macmillan & Co., Ltd. ,→OCLC The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;[ …] possible chance of teaching him a lesson was a pleasure to behold.
( comparable ) feasible .Synonyms: achievable doable viable Antonym: impossible It'spossible for anyone to learn to play the bagpipes.
1901 The Public , volume 4,page438 :And success in minor degree, in the sense in which he uses the term "success," is only somewhat morepossible than success in winning the White House chair.
1993 September 10, Lee Michael Katz, “Expectant Mideast hopes to bear twin peace deals”, inUSA Today [1] the original on30 June 2013 , page 2A:Peace between Israel and the Arab countries is "morepossible than any time before," says ex-Arab League U.N. ambassador Clovis Maskoud.
2013 June 29, “A punch in the gut ”, inThe Economist 407 , number8842 , pages72–3 :Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise bepossible . Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.
Beingconsidered , e.g. for aposition .Jones and Smith are bothpossible for the opening in sales.
Apparently valid, likely,plausible .Synonyms: likely plausible Antonym: implausible able but not certain to happen
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capable of being done or achieved; feasible
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being considered, e.g. for a position
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possible (plural possibles
( colloquial , rare ) choice , notably someone being considered for a position.Synonym: candidate Jones is apossible for the new opening in sales.
( colloquial , rare ) 1881–1882 Robert Louis Stevenson ,Treasure Island Cassell & Company , published 14 November 1883,→OCLC [ …] possible , which that ain’t,” said Silver. “I can only, asking your pardon, save my life and the boy’s by seeking for that treasure; and you may lay to that.”
( rare ) a particular event that may happen
“possible ”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary G. & C. Merriam ,1913 ,→OCLC William Dwight Whitney ,Benjamin E[li] Smith , editors (1911 ), “possible ”, inThe Century Dictionary [ … ] The Century Co. ,→OCLC Borrowed fromLatin possibilis
possible m or f masculine and feminine plural possibles
possible Antonym: impossible Borrowed fromLatin possibilis
possible (plural possibles
possible possible
( archaic ) possibly 1657 Cyrano de Bergerac ,Les Etats et Empires de la Lune [2] [ …] possible quelque espèce d’autruche, vu que je portais comme elle la tête droite, que je marchais sur deux pieds, et qu’enfin, hormis un peu de duvet, je lui étais tout semblable[ …] (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation) possible m plural possibles
the possible,feasible , what can be done, achieved etc.J'ai fait monpossible pour votre fils, mais sans discipline, il ne s'efforce pas à plein. I've done what I can for your son, but without discipline, he won't put in full effort. 
