possibly Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adverb by chance
    perchance; perhaps; maybe; peradventure; mayhap.
    • perhaps she will call tomorrow
    • we may possibly run into them at the concert
    • it may peradventure be thought that there never was such a time
  2. adverb to a degree possible of achievement or by possible means
    • they can't possibly get here in time for the funeral?

WordNet

Pos"si*bly adverb
Definitions
  1. In a possible manner; by possible means; especially, by extreme, remote, or improbable intervention, change, or exercise of power; by a chance; perhaps; as, possibly he may recover.
    Can we . . . possibly his love desert? Milton.
    When possibly I can, I will return. Shak.

Webster 1913