conceivably

English

Etymology

conceivable +‎ -ly

Adverb

conceivably (comparative more conceivably, superlative most conceivably)

  1. In a conceivable manner; possibly.
    • 2015, James Lambert, “Lexicography as a teaching tool: A Hong Kong case study”, in Lan Li, Jamie McKeown, Liming Liu, editors, Dictionaries and corpora: Innovations in reference science. Proceedings of ASIALEX 2015 Hong Kong, Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, page 145:
      Considering that no lexicographer can conceivably know all the words of a language, students were asked to ponder what data lexicographers used to inform them about words[.]
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