perhaps

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   Possibly.not-comparable

   • Perhaps John will come over for dinner.
   • There was a perhaps credible witness.
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   By chance.datednot-comparable

   • […] will live until he dies perhaps, and then lie down in clover.

syn. bechance · belike · maybe · mayhap · mayhaps · peradventure · perchance

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   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.