Usually means: Could happen, but not certain.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. possibly: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. possibly: Merriam-Webster
  3. possibly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. possibly: Collins English Dictionary
  5. possibly: Vocabulary.com
  6. Possibly, possibly: Wordnik
  7. possibly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. possibly: Wiktionary
  9. possibly: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. possibly: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. possibly: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Possibly, possibly: Dictionary.com
  13. possibly: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Possibly: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Possibly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. possibly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. possibly: Rhymezone
  18. Possibly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. possibly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. possibly: FreeDictionary.org
  21. possibly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. possibly: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. possibly: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. possibly: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. possibly: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. possibly: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. possibly: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adverb:  (modifying a clause or predicate) Perhaps; indicates that the proposition may be true (is not certainly false) regardless of any facts or circumstances known to, stated by or implied by the speaker.
adverb:  (modifying a verb) In the realm of possibility; indicates that the action may successfully be performed (is not impossible) regardless of any facts or circumstances known to, stated by or implied by the speaker that might limit the performance.

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