Meaning

Possibly..

Definitions by Sense

1. Possibly.
2. (dated) By chance.
3. An uncertainty.

Example Sentences

Perhaps John will come over for dinner.

There was a perhaps credible witness.

He was seriously wounded, perhaps fatally.

The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed.

With some of it on the south and more of it on the north of the great main thoroughfare that connects Aldgate and the East India Docks, St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London.

It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].

However, before most of this was experimentally and observationally discovered, they were perhaps best known for their “almost unique” ability to squirt ink when harangued, creating a smokescreen before jetting off to safety.

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

Word Forms

• perhap
• perhapses

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When Should You Use Perhaps?

Use perhaps when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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