Maybe

Definition: Maybe

Maybe

Adverb

1. By chance; "perhaps she will call tomorrow"; "we may possibly run into them at the concert"; "it may peradventure be thought that there never was such a time".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "maybe" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Synonyms: Maybe

Possibility

Adverb: possibly, by possibility; perhaps, perchance, peradventure; maybe, may be, haply, mayhap.

Crosswords: Maybe

It's kind of like when you go on vacation: you plan everything out, but then one day you make a wrong turn, or take a detour, and you end up in some crazy place you can't even find on the map, doing something you never thought you'd do. Maybe you feel a little lost while it's happening, but later you realize it was the best part of the whole trip (Threesome; writing credit: Andrew Fleming.)

Your next life, maybe. Who knows (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski)

Once, maybe twice in his own eternity (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice)

Maybe it was a photo finish (Singin' in the Rain; writing credit: Betty Comden; Adolph Green)

Maybe it's time you started investigating yourself (Memento; writing credit: Bo Goldman; Lawrence Hauben)

I think it's just the season, Maybe the month, Maybe the bleeding (We Need A Resolution; performing artist: Aaliyah)

Yeah sure maybe I'm on the edge (Every Heartbeat; performing artist: Amy Grant)

Walk with me, and maybe (Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely; performing artist: Backstreet Boys)

Maybe I lost my direction, what if our love is the cost (Falling For The First Time; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies)

Could ya' maybe give me something (Tryin' To Get The Feeling Again; performing artist: BARRY MANILOW)

Definite maybe (references; author: unknown)

Most accidents happen at home. Maybe we should move. (references; author: unknown)

Friends forever: never apart, maybe by distance, but not by heart. (references; author: unknown)

I wrote a song, but I can't read music. Every time I hear a new song on the radio, I think, "Hey, maybe I wrote that. (references; author: unknown)

And I Don't Mean Maybe (1973)

Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring (1971)

Definitely Maybe (2001)

Maybe This Time (1995)

How to Survive the 70s and Maybe Even Bump Into Happiness (1978)

MAYBE I'M AMAZED  (performing artist: Paul Mc Cartney )

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• How to Survive and Maybe Even Love Nursing School!: Guide for Students by Students (reference)

• Maybe (Maybe Not: Second Thoughts from a Secret Life) (reference)

• Maybe Days: A Book for Children in Foster Care (reference)

• Mr. Maybe (reference)

• Saint Maybe (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Maybe Baby (reference)

• Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring (reference)

• Maybe... Maybe Not (reference)

• Saint Maybe (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Maybe This Christmas (reference)

• Maybe You Should Drive (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Perhaps the remains of a once noble ship or maybe only an old pier. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Setting foot on Antarctic soil ( maybe ice would be a better term.). Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Willow Creek Wilderness Study Area two track road, maybe a trail. OR 3-152. Credit: Tom Dew.

Maybe you had chiggers back home but none like these : This Chigger Carries Scrub Typhus Fever. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Could you poison your child? ... maybe. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Maybe that little dried apricot didn't give me some walk. Credit: Library of Congress.

Maybe somebody wants to buy a little suckling pig, hey?. Credit: Library of Congress.

Anyway, maybe she's thinking. Credit: Library of Congress.

Maybe it is a good omen --. Credit: Library of Congress.

Salvage. Backwoods auto graveyard. Maybe the one that got away was bigger, but this is a fair-sized catch for Uncle Sam's scrap drive. From the depths of a small lake near Zachow, Wisconsin hundreds of ancient jalopies are being resurrected by a Zachow au. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Yeah, well, maybe I don't feel so keen on doing it all of a sudden

Well, maybe the bottled soda will be all right

Maybe they are simply great enough to receive without misgiving

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Maybe you have seen articles written about these treatments in magazines, newspapers, or books. (references)

Some people cannot have an IOL. They may have problems during surgery, or maybe they have another eye disease. (references)

If you feel shy about calling a doctor or nurse, maybe a support group can help you. Some groups will talk to you on their toll free number. (references)

Business

The same will happen in the automotive market and after a few years, maybe four or five, it will stabilize growth and Greek car buyers will become more restrained towards car purchasing. (references)

Both the Mercosur Common External Tariff (MCET) Schedule and the U.S. Schedule B classifications are set forth below because, as a rule, the MCET breaks down to 6, maybe 8 digits, but not to 10 like the U.S. Harmonized System. (references)

As the deadlines are approaching and the bulldozers start work, suppliers start shipping and service providers get positioned, maybe it would help if the parties involved started fearing that Jupiter may show up to watch the games. (references)

Economic History

Chile

Sustained low world mineral commodity prices have affected investment in recent years, slowing development and postponing, maybe indefinitely, marginal projects. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "maybe": maybe he is ill ♦ maybe then. Additional references.

Ending with "maybe": just-maybe.

Afrikaans

miskien (mayhap, perchance, perhaps, possibly). (various references)

Albanian

ndoshta (belike, mayhap, perchance, perhaps, possibly). (various references)

Arabic 

‏لعل (perhaps), ‏ربما (at times, likely, may, might, perhaps, possibly, probably, supposedly). (various references)

Basque

beharbada (perhaps). (various references)

Bulgarian 

може би (conceivably, perchance, perhaps, possibly). (various references)

Chinese 

說不定 (can't say for sure), 或者 (or, perhaps, possibly), 或許 (perhaps), 或 (might, or, perhaps, possibly), 也許 (perhaps), 不一定 (not necessarily), 可能 (Likelier, Likeliest, likelihood, likely, Possible, Possibly, Probable). (various references)

Czech

možná (conceivably, perhaps, possibly), snad (conceivably, daresay, perhaps, possibly). (various references)

Danish

måske (mayhap, perchance, perhaps, possibly). (various references)

Dutch

misschien (mayhap, perchance, perhaps, possibly). (various references)

Esperanto

eble (perhaps, possibly). (various references)

Faeroese

møguliga (mayhap, perchance, perhaps, possibly), kanska (mayhap, perchance, perhaps, possibly). (various references)

Farsi 

احتمالا (Belike, Like, Presumably, Soso), شاید (Belike, Lest, Like, May, Peradventure, Perchance, Perhaps). (various references)

Finnish

voi olla, kenties (perhaps), kai (perhaps, probably), ehkä (perhaps, possibly). (various references)

French

peut-être que, peut-être (may be, mayhap), peut être. (various references)

Frisian

mooglik (mayhap, perchance, perhaps, possible, possibly), miskien (mayhap, perchance, perhaps, possibly), mûlk (mayhap, perchance, perhaps, possible, possibly), faaks (mayhap, perchance, perhaps, possibly). (various references)

German

vielleicht (by any chance, fair, happen, mayhap, peradventure, perchance, perhaps, perhaps so, possibly, really). (various references)

Greek 

μήπωσ (lest), πιθανώσ (possibly, presumably, probably), ίσωσ (may, peradventure, perhaps). (various references)

Guarani

oiméne. (various references)

Hawaiian

ndoshta (mayhap, perchance, perhaps, possibly). (various references)

Hebrew 

יתכן (feasible, likely, perhaps, possibly), יכול להיות, אולי (or, perhaps), אפשר (it is possible, likely, perhaps, possibly). (various references)

Hungarian

esetleg (by any chance, haply, incidentally, mayhap, mayhaps, perchance, perhaps, possibly), talán (belike, haply, mayhap, mayhaps, perchance, perhaps, possibly, probably, so so). (various references)

Indonesian

mungkin (might, perhaps, possibly, probable), jangan-jangan (let us hope not, perhaps, who knows). (various references)

Italian

forse (about, mayhap, perchance, perhaps, possibly, probably). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

若しかすると (by some chance, perhaps), 若しかしたら　 (by some chance, perhaps), 若しかしたら (by some chance, perhaps), ひょう窃 (accidentally, by chance, flutter, frail, hurt, lanky, long and thin, perhaps, piracy, plagiarism, possibly, smart, swaying, tall and thin, to feelcool, unexpectedly, unsteady steps), こそ泥 (because of this, besides, by doing, by means of, can, clicking, compact, drumming, dry, due to this, frightened, happens on occasions, hard, has occurred, hitch, in addition, it has been arrangedthat, it has been decidedthat, it is I who should say so, laboriously, lately, misspelling of "kon ni chi ha", moreover, perhaps, possibly, prejudice, puritanical, recently, regularToukai-line shinkansen, secretly, sneak-thief, sound of rapping, steadily, stealthily, such a thing happened, thanks to this, the other day, there are times when, through, to be able to, to be concerned about, to be particular about, to fuss over, to have done, to this extent, trouble, unflaggingly, untiringly, using, via). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ひょっとすると (perhaps, possibly), ことにすると (perhaps, possibly), もしかすると (by some chance, perhaps), もしかしたら (by some chance, perhaps). (various references)

Korean 

어쩌면. (various references)

Lombard

poeu vess (mayhap, perchance, perhaps, possibly). (various references)

Malay

mungkin (mayhap, perchance, perhaps, possibly), boleh jadi (mayhap, perchance, perhaps, possibly). (various references)

Manx

foddee (can, may, peradventure, perchance, perhaps, possibly, probably). (various references)

Norwegian

kanskje (mayhap, perchance, perhaps, possibly). (various references)

Occitan

benlèu (perhaps). (various references)

Papiamen

talbes (mayhap, perchance, perhaps, possibly), podisé (mayhap, perchance, perhaps, possibly), kisas (mayhap, perchance, perhaps, possibly). (various references)

Pig Latin

aybemay.(various references)

Polish

może (mayhap, perchance, perhaps, possibly). (various references)

Portuguese

talvez (mayhap, perchance, perhaps, possibly, probably). (various references)

Romanian

poate (mayhap, peradventure, perchance, perhaps, possibly). (various references)

Russian 

может быть (perhaps). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

možda (perchance, perhaps, possible). (various references)

Spanish

quizás (mayhap, peradventure, perchance, perhaps, possibly), tal vez (mayhap, perchance, perhaps, possibly). (various references)

Sranan

sonten (mayhap, perchance, perhaps, possibly), sonte (mayhap, perchance, perhaps, possibly), kande (mayhap, perchance, perhaps, possibly). (various references)

Swahili

labda (mayhap, perchance, perhaps, possibly). (various references)

Swedish

kanske (haply, mayhap, peradventure, perchance, perhaps, possibly), kanhända (perhaps). (various references)

Tagalog

maráhil (mayhap, perchance, perhaps, possibly), sigúro (mayhap, perchance, perhaps, possibly). (various references)

Thai

บางที ((as) likely as not, belike). (various references)

Turkish

olabilir (I don't care if I do, may be, mayhap, possible), belki (contingently, mayhap, peradventure, perchance, perhaps, possibly), belkí (mayhap, perchance, perhaps, possibly). (various references)

Ukrainian

можливо (conceivably, peradventure, perchance, perhaps, possibly, presumably, probably), мабуть (apparently, likely, ought, possibly, presumably, probably, yes). (various references)

Vietnamese 

có thể (ablings, ablins, aiblins, likely, perhaps, possible, possibly, praps, traceable), có lẽ (aiblins, haply, perhaps, possibly, praps). (various references)

Welsh

efallai (peradventure, perhaps). (various references)

Yucatec

wale' (mayhap, perchance, perhaps, possibly), wal (mayhap, perchance, perhaps, possibly), talbes (mayhap, perchance, perhaps, possibly), kensa biixi' (mayhap, perchance, perhaps, possibly), beyts'abile' (mayhap, perchance, perhaps, possibly). (various references)

Zulu

ngabe (mayhap, perchance, perhaps, possibly). (various references)

fortasse. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "maybe": maybes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Maybe" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: amibe, Ayubi, Ayubu, Mabb, mabe, mabel, mabey, Mabie, mabo, Maby, mabye, Magb, Maibai, Maiben, Maxbox, Maybach, maybel, Maybin, mayble, Maybud, mayby, mayde, Maye, mayebe, mayed, Mayeux, mayhew, mayne, mayse, mayte, mayze, mbaye, mebe, meye, Mouyabi, Muyabo, Muyabu, mybe, Qaybeh, Raybee. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: beamy, embay.

-1 letter: abye, beam, bema, mabe.

-2 letters: aby, aye, bam, bay, bey, bye, mae, may, yam, yea.

-3 letters: ab, ae, am, ay, ba, be, by, em, ma, me, my, ya, ye.

+1 letter: ambery, baymen, byname, embays, maybes.

+2 letters: beamily, bynames, embassy, embayed, eyebeam.

+3 letters: amenably, assembly, bogeyman, cymbaler, embaying, eyebeams, lambency, mangabey, mealybug, megabyte, moneybag, moveably, sunbeamy.

+4 letters: ambrotype, amebocyte, barometry, beamishly, blasphemy, boogeyman, cymbalers, embayment, embracery, embryonal, estimably, lambently, mangabeys, maybushes, mealybugs, megabytes, memorably, miserably, molybdate, moneybags, removably, semblably.

+5 letters: ambrotypes, amebocytes, amoebocyte, bathymetry, blamefully, embayments, emblazonry, employable, impeccably, lamentably, lumberyard, manageably, measurably, metastably, molybdates, myeloblast, presumably, reassembly, remarkably, terminably.