potentially

Adverb

Meaning

With power; potently.

In a potential manner; possibly, not positively.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

possible like able might potential likely probably eventually perhaps possibly possibility virtually acute reasonably morally
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Antonyms

former before actually finally formerly ahead
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Phrases with the word

potentially dangerous potentially combustible potentially inflammable potentially flammable

Examples

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality. Erich Fromm

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet. Adrienne Rich

So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get. Robert Sternberg

The paternalist is a sentimentalist at heart, and the sentimentalist is always potentially cruel. Christopher Isherwood

If we don't make earnest moves toward real solutions, then each day we move one day closer to revolution and anarchy in this country. This is the sad, and yet potentially joyous, state of America. Louis Farrakhan

We should take comfort in two conjoined features of nature: first, that our world is incredibly strange and therefore supremely fascinating ... second, that however bizarre and arcane our world might be, nature remains potentially comprehensible to the human mind. Stephen Jay Gould

Close letter words and terms

potentiality potentialization potentialize potentially combustible potentially dangerous potentially flammable