perhaps
adv/pəˈhæps/UK/pɚˈhæps/US
Etymology
From Middle English perhappes, perhappous, variant of earlier perhap (“perhaps, possibly”), equivalent to per + hap (“chance, coincidence”) + -s, on model of Middle English parchaunce (modern perchance).
- inherited from parchaunce
- inherited from perhappes
Definitions
Possibly.
- Perhaps John will come over for dinner.
- There was a perhaps credible witness.
- He was seriously wounded, perhaps fatally.
By chance.
- […] will live until he dies perhaps, and then lie down in clover.
An uncertainty.
- I cannot conceive what atheism, or skepticism, or positivism could do for me now, with their negations, and endless and contradictory perhapses, and perhapses, and perhapses.
The neighborhood
- synonymbechance
- synonymbelike
- synonymmaybe
- synonymmayhap
- synonymmayhaps
- synonymperadventure
- synonymperchance
- neighborperhapser
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for perhaps. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA