potentially

Examples

• All

• There are potentially a million customers for basketball shoes in the United States, who would wear the shoes only when they're playing basketball.

  Air (2023)

• The changes in policy could potentially lead to improved public safety.

• And what is Apple doing that could potentially hurt a lot?

  Meet Kevin

• One line could potentially change all of this.

  Lex Fridman

• We're going to say that potentially this could be a success.

  Patricia Bright

• You know, this potentially could have been used in a case.

• Uh, this is a rich archaeological area, and we have reason to believe that your property may potentially be an important site.

  Here (2024)

• Draw up a list of factors that might flag up a family as potentially needing support.

  Academic text (2011)

• But there's still a long way to go in this race, and with rain potentially forecast, anything can happen.

  F1 (2025)

• In this environment, it is prudent to treat any unexplained phenomenon... - as potentially dangerous.

  Camp Daze (2005)

Synonyms

P

perhaps

vspotentially

∞ 1.0

To say something might be true

suggests a real but not yet achieved state rather than mere doubt

P

possibly

vspotentially

∞ 1.0

May happen or be true and sometimes makes a request more polite

implies ability to become real later rather than being true now

C

conceivably

vspotentially

41 5.3

Something you can imagine or think may happen

focuses on capacity to become actual rather than just imagined possibility

F

feasibly

vspotentially

3 3.9

In a way that can be done with the things you have

describes possibility of becoming real regardless of practical ease

I

imaginably

vspotentially

4.5

In a way you can imagine

means it could become real, not only exist in imagination

Antonyms

D

definitely

∞ 1.0

To say that something is true without any doubt

How Likely

certainly

∞ 1.0

probably

∞ 1.0

potentially

479 3.4

possibly

∞ 1.0

conceivably

41 5.3

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology