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Common
adv
•
Perhaps;
indicates
that the
proposition
may be
true
(is not
certainly
false
)
regardless of
any
facts
or
circumstances
known to,
stated
by or
implied
by the
speaker
.
•
In the
realm
of
possibility
;
indicates
that the
action
may
successfully
be
performed
(is not
impossible
)
regardless of
any
facts
or
circumstances
known to,
stated
by or
implied
by the
speaker
that might
limit
the performance.
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plausibly
feasibly
probably
easily
theoretically
presumably
arguably
simply
obviously
realistically
surely
likely
literally
definitely
actually
effectively
hopefully
certainly
imaginably
essentially
clearly
typically
usually
even
supposedly
likelihood
prospect
sometimes
viably
preferably
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Opposite
certainly
inevitably
impossibly
Lineage
possibly
English
-ly
English
-lice
Old English (ca. 450-1100)
-ly
Middle English (1100-1500)
possible
English
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