possibility
The quality of being possibleThe quality of being possible.
» This possibility can't be ruled out.
Diese Möglichkeit kann nicht ausgeschlossen werden.
Эту возможность нельзя исключить.
Эту возможность нельзя исключать.
Исключать такую возможность нельзя.
Исключать эту возможность нельзя.
Виключати таку можливість не можна.
Виключати цю можливість не можна.
Meaning
4 senses(countable, uncountable)The quality of being possible.
'There is little possibility of that happening' 'I'd say there's rather a strongish possibility that it won't.'
Möglichkeit
возмо́жностьvozmóžnostʹ
можли́вістьmožlývistʹ
a possible alternative
(countable, uncountable)A thing possible; that which may take place or come into being.
(countable, uncountable)An option or choice, usually used in context with future events.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)Capability, power or capacity to act.
Examples
660 sentencesThis possibility can't be ruled out.
Виключати таку можливість не можна.
ruЭту возможность нельзя исключить.
deDiese Möglichkeit kann nicht ausgeschlossen werden.
I hadn't thought of that possibility.
Я не подумав про цю можливість.
There's a possibility that the man was murdered.
Є імовірність того, що чоловік був вбитим.
ruЕсть вероятность того, что человек был убит.
deEs besteht die Möglichkeit, dass der Mann ermordet wurde.
I think there's a good possibility that that will happen.
Гадаю, існує велика ймовірність, що це станеться.
I wonder whether or not there's any possibility that Tom will do that.
Мені цікаво, чи є якась імовірність того, що Том цим займеться.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English possibilite, from Middle French possibilité (from Old French possibiliFrom Middle English possibilite, from Middle French possibilité (from Old French possibilite) and directly from Late Latin possibilitās (“possibility”), from Latin possibilis (“possible”); see possible. By surface analysis, possible + -ity.
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Forms
plural: possibilities| Singular | possibility |
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regular
Synonyms
14 synonyms- a possible alternative:possible actionopening
- capability of existing or happening or being true:possibleness
- a tentative insight into the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena:hypothesistheory
Antonyms
2 antonymsWord family
12 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
Collocations
12 patterns- there's a possibility
- a possibility that
- there any possibility
- consider the possibility
- out the possibility
- any possibility
- any possibility that
- was a possibility
- the possibility that
- the possibility of
- considered that possibility
- possibility that that'll