Definition of Potentially

1. Adverb. With a possibility of becoming actual. "Potentially useful"

Partainyms: Potential

Definition of Potentially

1. adv. With power; potently.

Definition of Potentially

1. Adverb. In a manner showing much potential; with the possibility of happening in a given way. ¹

2. Adverb. (obsolete) Powerfully, strongly. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Potentially

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Potentially

potentacy
potentate
potentates
potential
potential difference
potential divider
potential drop
potential energy
potential unit
potential vorticities
potential vorticity
potential well
potentialities
potentiality
potentialize
potentially (current term)
potentially hazardous object
potentially hazardous objects
potentials
potentiate
potentiated
potentiates
potentiating
potentiation
potentiations
potentiator
potentiators
potentilla
potentillas
potentiodynamic

Literary usage of Potentially

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Mind and Its Education by George Herbert Betts (1916)
"All Our Past Experience potentially at Our Command. ... All the objects we have seen, it is potentially possible again to see in the mind's eye without ..."

2. The Medical Clinics of North America by Michael C. Fiore, Stephen S. Entman, Charles B. Rush (1922)
"JAMES W- SHERRILL PHYSIATRIC INSTITUTE, MORRISTOWN, NEW JERSEY THE PROGRESS OF potentially DIABETIC PERSONS IN RELATION TO DIETARY CONTROL THE object of ..."

3. Natural Rights: A Criticism of Some Political and Ethical Conceptions by David George Ritchie (1903)
"They are persons potentially, because they are potentially members of a society. As a matter of historical development, it is only in smaller societies that ..."

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