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(usually not comparable) Able but not certain to happen; neither inevitable nor impossible.
Synonyms: futurable; see also Thesaurus:possible

Antonyms: certain, inevitable, impossible

Rain tomorrow is possible, but I wouldn't bet on it.
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It's not just possible, it's probable that there will be rain tomorrow.
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- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: 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; […] . Now she had come to look upon the matter in its true proportions, and her anticipation of a possible chance of teaching him a lesson was a pleasure to behold.
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(comparable) Capable of being done or achieved; feasible.
Synonyms: achievable, doable, viable

Antonym: impossible

It's possible for anyone to learn to play the bagpipes.
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- 1901, Louis Freeland Smith, The Public, volume 4, page 438:
  And success in minor degree, in the sense in which he uses the term "success," is only somewhat more possible than success in winning the White House chair.
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- 1993 September 10, Lee Michael Katz, “Expectant Mideast hopes to bear twin peace deals”, in USA Today‎, archived from the original on 30 June 2013, page 2A:
  Peace between Israel and the Arab countries is "more possible than any time before," says ex-Arab League U.N. ambassador Clovis Maskoud.
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- 2013 June 29, “A punch in the gut”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, pages 72–3:
  Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.
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Being considered, e.g. for a position.
Jones and Smith are both possible for the opening in sales.
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Apparently valid, likely, plausible.
Synonyms: likely, plausible

Antonym: implausible

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able but not certain to happen

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Albanian: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Albanian#POSSIBLE
Arabic: مُمْكِن (mumkin)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#POSSIBLE
Egyptian Arabic: ممكن (mumkin)Category:Terms with Egyptian Arabic translations#POSSIBLE
Armenian: հնարավոր (hy) (hnaravor)Category:Armenian terms with redundant script codes#POSSIBLE Category:Terms with Armenian translations#POSSIBLE
Asturian: posibleCategory:Terms with Asturian translations#POSSIBLE
Azerbaijani: mümkün (az)Category:Terms with Azerbaijani translations#POSSIBLE
Belarusian: магчы́мы (mahčýmy)Category:Terms with Belarusian translations#POSSIBLE, мажлі́вы (mažlívy)Category:Terms with Belarusian translations#POSSIBLE
Bulgarian: възмо́жен (bg) (vǎzmóžen)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#POSSIBLE
Burmese: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Burmese#POSSIBLE
Carpathian Rusyn: можный (možnŷj)Category:Terms with Carpathian Rusyn translations#POSSIBLE
Catalan: possible (ca)Category:Terms with Catalan translations#POSSIBLE
Chinese:
Mandarin: 可能 (zh) (kěnéng)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#POSSIBLE Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#POSSIBLE
Czech: možný (cs) mCategory:Terms with Czech translations#POSSIBLE
Danish: mulig (da)Category:Terms with Danish translations#POSSIBLE
Dutch: mogelijk (nl)Category:Terms with Dutch translations#POSSIBLE
Esperanto: eventuala (eo)Category:Terms with Esperanto translations#POSSIBLE, ebla (eo)Category:Terms with Esperanto translations#POSSIBLE
Estonian: võimalik (et)Category:Terms with Estonian translations#POSSIBLE
Faroese: møguligurCategory:Terms with Faroese translations#POSSIBLE
Fijian: rawa (fj)Category:Terms with Fijian translations#POSSIBLE
Finnish: mahdollinen (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#POSSIBLE
French: possible (fr)Category:Terms with French translations#POSSIBLE
Galician: posible (gl)Category:Terms with Galician translations#POSSIBLE, posíbel (gl)Category:Terms with Galician translations#POSSIBLE
Georgian: შეიძლება (šeiʒleba)Category:Terms with Georgian translations#POSSIBLE
German: möglich (de)Category:Terms with German translations#POSSIBLE
Greek: πιθανός (el) (pithanós)Category:Terms with Greek translations#POSSIBLE
Hawaiian: hikiCategory:Terms with Hawaiian translations#POSSIBLE
Hebrew: אפשריCategory:Hebrew terms with redundant script codes#POSSIBLE Category:Terms with Hebrew translations#POSSIBLE
Hindi: संभव (hi) (sambhav)Category:Terms with Hindi translations#POSSIBLE, मुमकिन (hi) (mumkin)Category:Terms with Hindi translations#POSSIBLE
Hungarian: lehetséges (hu)Category:Terms with Hungarian translations#POSSIBLE
Icelandic: hægur (is)Category:Terms with Icelandic translations#POSSIBLE, mögulegur (is)Category:Terms with Icelandic translations#POSSIBLE
Interlingua: possibileCategory:Terms with Interlingua translations#POSSIBLE
Isan: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Isan#POSSIBLE
Italian: possibile (it)Category:Terms with Italian translations#POSSIBLE
Japanese: ありうる (ariuru)Category:Japanese terms with redundant script codes#POSSIBLE Category:Terms with Japanese translations#POSSIBLE, 起こり得る (okoriuru)Category:Japanese terms with redundant script codes#POSSIBLE Category:Terms with Japanese translations#POSSIBLE
Kashubian: mòżlëwiCategory:Terms with Kashubian translations#POSSIBLE
Khmer: អាច (km) (aac)Category:Khmer terms with redundant script codes#POSSIBLE Category:Terms with Khmer translations#POSSIBLE
Korean: 가능하다 (ko) (ganeunghada)Category:Terms with Korean translations#POSSIBLE
Lao: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Lao#POSSIBLE
Latin: possibilis (la)Category:Terms with Latin translations#POSSIBLE
Latvian: iespējamsCategory:Terms with Latvian translations#POSSIBLE
Lithuanian: galimas (lt)Category:Terms with Lithuanian translations#POSSIBLE
Livonian: võidõbCategory:Terms with Livonian translations#POSSIBLE
Lü: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Lü#POSSIBLE
Luxembourgish: méiglechCategory:Terms with Luxembourgish translations#POSSIBLE
Macedonian: можен (možen)Category:Terms with Macedonian translations#POSSIBLE
Malagasy: haizina (mg)Category:Terms with Malagasy translations#POSSIBLE
Maltese: possibbliCategory:Terms with Maltese translations#POSSIBLE
Maori: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Maori#POSSIBLE
Mongolian: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Mongolian#POSSIBLE
Nepali: सम्भव (sambhav)Category:Terms with Nepali translations#POSSIBLE, हुन सक्नु (huna saknu)Category:Terms with Nepali translations#POSSIBLE
Norman: possibl'ye m or fCategory:Terms with Norman translations#POSSIBLE
Northern Sami: vejolašCategory:Terms with Northern Sami translations#POSSIBLE
Old English: mihtlīċCategory:Terms with Old English translations#POSSIBLE
Persian: ممکن (fa) (momken)Category:Terms with Persian translations#POSSIBLE
Polish: możliwy (pl)Category:Terms with Polish translations#POSSIBLE
Portuguese: possível (pt)Category:Terms with Portuguese translations#POSSIBLE
Romanian: posibil (ro)Category:Terms with Romanian translations#POSSIBLE
Russian: возмо́жный (ru) (vozmóžnyj)Category:Terms with Russian translations#POSSIBLE, вероя́тный (ru) (verojátnyj)Category:Terms with Russian translations#POSSIBLE (probable)
Serbo-Croatian:
Roman: mȍgūćCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#POSSIBLE
Shan: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Shan#POSSIBLE
Slovak: možnýCategory:Terms with Slovak translations#POSSIBLE
Slovene: mogoč (sl)Category:Terms with Slovene translations#POSSIBLE, možen (sl)Category:Terms with Slovene translations#POSSIBLE
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: móžnyCategory:Terms with Lower Sorbian translations#POSSIBLE

Upper Sorbian: móžnyCategory:Terms with Upper Sorbian translations#POSSIBLE
Spanish: posible (es)Category:Terms with Spanish translations#POSSIBLE
Swedish: möjlig (sv)Category:Terms with Swedish translations#POSSIBLE
Tagalog: posible (tl)Category:Terms with Tagalog translations#POSSIBLE
Tajik: мумкин (mumkin)Category:Terms with Tajik translations#POSSIBLE
Thai: เป็นไปได้Category:Terms with Thai translations#POSSIBLE
Turkish: olası (tr)Category:Terms with Turkish translations#POSSIBLE, mümkün (tr)Category:Terms with Turkish translations#POSSIBLE
Ukrainian: можли́вий (možlývyj)Category:Terms with Ukrainian translations#POSSIBLE
Urdu: ممکن (mumkin)Category:Urdu terms with redundant script codes#POSSIBLE Category:Terms with Urdu translations#POSSIBLE
Uzbek: mumkin (uz)Category:Terms with Uzbek translations#POSSIBLE
Vietnamese: có thể (vi)Category:Terms with Vietnamese translations#POSSIBLE
Volapük: mögik (vo)Category:Terms with Volapük translations#POSSIBLE
Walloon: possibe (wa)Category:Terms with Walloon translations#POSSIBLE
Welsh: dichonadwyCategory:Terms with Welsh translations#POSSIBLE, posib (cy)Category:Terms with Welsh translations#POSSIBLE
Yagnobi: мумкин (mumkin)Category:Terms with Yagnobi translations#POSSIBLE
Yiddish: מיגלעך (miglekh)Category:Terms with Yiddish translations#POSSIBLE, מעגלעך (meglekh)Category:Terms with Yiddish translations#POSSIBLE
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capable of being done or achieved; feasible

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Asturian: posibleCategory:Terms with Asturian translations#POSSIBLE
Azerbaijani: mümkün (az)Category:Terms with Azerbaijani translations#POSSIBLE, yerinə yetirilə bilənCategory:Terms with Azerbaijani translations#POSSIBLE, həyata keçirilə bilənCategory:Terms with Azerbaijani translations#POSSIBLE
Bulgarian: изпълним (bg) (izpǎlnim)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#POSSIBLE
Catalan: possible (ca)Category:Terms with Catalan translations#POSSIBLE
Danish: mulig (da)Category:Terms with Danish translations#POSSIBLE
Dutch: mogelijk (nl)Category:Terms with Dutch translations#POSSIBLE, doenbaar (nl)Category:Terms with Dutch translations#POSSIBLE, doenlijk (nl)Category:Terms with Dutch translations#POSSIBLE, haalbaar (nl)Category:Terms with Dutch translations#POSSIBLE, te doenCategory:Terms with Dutch translations#POSSIBLE, overwogen (nl)Category:Terms with Dutch translations#POSSIBLE
Esperanto: ebla (eo)Category:Terms with Esperanto translations#POSSIBLE
Finnish: mahdollinen (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#POSSIBLE
French: possible (fr)Category:Terms with French translations#POSSIBLE, faisable (fr)Category:Terms with French translations#POSSIBLE
Galician: posible (gl)Category:Terms with Galician translations#POSSIBLE, posíbel (gl)Category:Terms with Galician translations#POSSIBLE
Greek: εφικτός (el) (efiktós)Category:Terms with Greek translations#POSSIBLE
Hungarian: lehetséges (hu)Category:Terms with Hungarian translations#POSSIBLE, lehető (hu)Category:Terms with Hungarian translations#POSSIBLE (only before superlative forms)
Icelandic: mögulegur (is)Category:Terms with Icelandic translations#POSSIBLE
Interlingua: possibileCategory:Terms with Interlingua translations#POSSIBLE
Irish: féidearthaCategory:Terms with Irish translations#POSSIBLE
Isan: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Isan#POSSIBLE
Japanese: 可能な (ja) (かのうな, kanō na)Category:Japanese terms with redundant script codes#POSSIBLE Category:Terms with Japanese translations#POSSIBLE
Khmer: អាចទៅរួច (ʼaac tɨw ruəc)Category:Terms with Khmer translations#POSSIBLE
Lao: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Lao#POSSIBLE
Latvian: iespējamsCategory:Terms with Latvian translations#POSSIBLE, veicamsCategory:Terms with Latvian translations#POSSIBLE
Lü: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Lü#POSSIBLE
Maori: āheiCategory:Terms with Maori translations#POSSIBLE
Northern Sami: vejolašCategory:Terms with Northern Sami translations#POSSIBLE
Portuguese: possível (pt)Category:Terms with Portuguese translations#POSSIBLE
Russian: возмо́жный (ru) (vozmóžnyj)Category:Terms with Russian translations#POSSIBLE, выполни́мый (ru) (vypolnímyj)Category:Terms with Russian translations#POSSIBLE
Serbo-Croatian:
Roman: izvòdljiv (sh)Category:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#POSSIBLE, izvòdiv (sh)Category:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#POSSIBLE, ostvàrljiv (sh)Category:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#POSSIBLE
Shan: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Shan#POSSIBLE
Spanish: posible (es)Category:Terms with Spanish translations#POSSIBLE
Swedish: möjlig (sv)Category:Terms with Swedish translations#POSSIBLE
Tagalog: posible (tl)Category:Terms with Tagalog translations#POSSIBLE
Thai: เป็นไปได้Category:Terms with Thai translations#POSSIBLE
Vietnamese: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Vietnamese#POSSIBLE
Zhuang: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Zhuang#POSSIBLE

being considered, e.g. for a position

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Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} ebla (eo)Category:Terms with Esperanto translations#POSSIBLE Category:Requests for review of Esperanto translations#POSSIBLE
Ido: ^{(please verify)} posibla (io)Category:Terms with Ido translations#POSSIBLE Category:Requests for review of Ido translations#POSSIBLE
Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} mungkin (id)Category:Terms with Indonesian translations#POSSIBLE Category:Requests for review of Indonesian translations#POSSIBLE
Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} possibileCategory:Terms with Interlingua translations#POSSIBLE Category:Requests for review of Interlingua translations#POSSIBLE
Italian: ^{(please verify)} possibile (it) m or fCategory:Terms with Italian translations#POSSIBLE Category:Requests for review of Italian translations#POSSIBLE (1, 2 ,3)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: ^{(please verify)} gengaz (ku)Category:Terms with Northern Kurdish translations#POSSIBLE Category:Requests for review of Northern Kurdish translations#POSSIBLE, ^{(please verify)} mimkin (ku)Category:Terms with Northern Kurdish translations#POSSIBLE Category:Requests for review of Northern Kurdish translations#POSSIBLE, ^{(please verify)} pêkan (ku)Category:Terms with Northern Kurdish translations#POSSIBLE Category:Requests for review of Northern Kurdish translations#POSSIBLE
Swedish: ^{(please verify)} möjlig (sv)Category:Terms with Swedish translations#POSSIBLE Category:Requests for review of Swedish translations#POSSIBLE

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(colloquial Category:English colloquialisms#POSSIBLE, rare Category:English terms with rare senses#POSSIBLE) A possible choice, notably someone being considered for a position.
Synonym: candidate

Jones is a possible for the new opening in sales.
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(colloquial Category:English colloquialisms#POSSIBLE, rare Category:English terms with rare senses#POSSIBLE) That which is possible for somebody.
- 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
  […] “don’t you be in any great hurry after that treasure.”
  “Why, sir, I do my 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.”
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(rare Category:English terms with rare senses#POSSIBLE) A particular event that may happen.

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a possible choice

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a particular event that may happen

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Dutch: mogelijkheid (nl)Category:Terms with Dutch translations#POSSIBLE

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bespoils

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Catalan

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Borrowed from Latin Category:Catalan terms borrowed from Latin#POSSIBLE Category:Catalan terms derived from Latin#POSSIBLE possibilis.

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IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [puˈsib.blə]Category:Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation#POSSIBLE

IPA^(key): (Valencia) [poˈsi.ble]Category:Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation#POSSIBLE

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possible m or f (masculine and feminine plural possibles)Category:Catalan lemmas#POSSIBLE Category:Catalan adjectives#POSSIBLE Category:Catalan epicene adjectives#POSSIBLE Category:Catalan entries with incorrect language header#POSSIBLE Category:Pages with entries#POSSIBLE Category:Pages with 3 entries#POSSIBLE

possible
Antonym: impossible

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possible (plural possibles)Category:French lemmas#POSSIBLE Category:French adjectives#POSSIBLE Category:French entries with incorrect language header#POSSIBLE Category:Pages with entries#POSSIBLE Category:Pages with 3 entries#POSSIBLE

possible

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(archaic Category:French terms with archaic senses#POSSIBLE) possibly
- 1657, Cyrano de Bergerac, Les Etats et Empires de la Lune‎:
  […] ils conclurent tous d’une commune voix que je n’étais pas un homme, mais 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 […]
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the possible, feasible, what can be done, achieved etc.
J'ai fait mon possible 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.
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“possible”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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