Talk:possible

I'm suspicious of that second noun sense. Seems more like possibility. -dmh 03:33, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Comparative / superlative?

Is it true that this can be used comparatively/superlatively? It describes something which is not impossible (= no extent), but not the likelihood of occurrence. -- 203.171.192.99 14:28, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

proper

in keeping with convention, decorum, or tradition 
Microsoft® Encarta® 2009

--Backinstadiums (talk) 13:11, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

Usage note

Fowler reads

It was formerly permissible to construct possible with a following to-infinitive, ‘able, capable’, i.e. the type ‘the broken toy was possible to be mended.’ 
Unlike able,  possible is complete in itself and means without addition able to be done or occur. The English for be possible to arise and be possible to be excluded is can arise, can be excluded’. --Backinstadiums (talk) 17:37, 15 August 2021 (UTC)