possible Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun something that can be done
    • politics is the art of the possible
  2. noun an applicant who might be suitable
  3. adjective capable of happening or existing
    • a breakthrough may be possible next year
    • anything is possible
    • warned of possible consequences
  4. adjective existing in possibility
    potential.
    • a potential problem
    • possible uses of nuclear power

WordNet

Pos"si*ble adjective
Etymology
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.
Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913