Definitions

Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word pos-sible.

Examples

  • He demanded "all-party talks as soon as pos-sible," adding: "All these other matters, like elections, should be part of that dialogue ... not preconditions to talks."

    Man In The Middle 2008

  • Then lie ran to it, opened it, Cursed himself, and besought them to recover me, if pos-sible.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • Khorii was more devastated than she would have believed pos-sible.

    First Warning McCaffrey, Anne 2005

  • To use networks for propaganda purposes is pos-sible but not as effective as old school broadcast media.

    Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Geert Lovinks concepts in critical internet culture 2005

  • So what made the overall 5.7 percent increase pos-sible was a threefold leap in out-of-wedlock births, from 399,000 in 1970 to 1,249,000 in 1998.

    The Case Against Kids Hacker, Andrew 2000

  • She'd come up here intent on only one thing: getting the business done as quickly as pos-sible, a barely explained rite that was apt to be painful and sure to be shameful.

    Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

  • It might be pos-sible to add those at the end, but what I had to deliver first were facts, not my interpretations of them

    Dread Companion Norton, Andre 1970

  • He had married only a few weeks before, Edith, the daughter of Professor William Frazier, younger by at least a decade than he but at one with him in his ideals and as much in love, if it were pos-sible, as Throckmartin.

    The Moon Pool 1919

  • They represented that it was better to keep on as long as pos-sible without resorting to this last resource.

    Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains Washington Irving 1821

  • All that could actually take place, and all that is only pos-sible to be conceived, what was said and what was done, the workings of passion, the spells of magic, are brought before us with the same absolute truth and vividness.

    Characters of Shakespeare's Plays William Hazlitt 1804

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.