might-be
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.63 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
That might be or occur; possible; potential; hypothetical.
noun
That which might be or happen; a possibility.
Example Sentences
- ""There is a might-be particle called a 'magnetic monopole' that was suggested by certain theories of Dirac and others but had never been observed."
- "In the Biology Teachers'" Handbook (Wiley, 1963), Schwab writes: A hypothesis is a "might be", a possibility which we intend to test . . . one of the values of a hypothesis consists in the fact that it can be made to point like an arrow [...]"
- "Firstness comprises anything capable of being described without contradiction (2.667), it is a might-be, in other words, pure possibility, which Peirce calls "quality": "mere quality, or suchness, is not in itself an occurrence, as seeing a red object is; it is a mere may-be."
- "It is a might be, a mere possibility from the tossing ocean of pure chance."
- "Context two is a 'might be' and is futural and nameable as 'the desired'."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
might be (alternative)
might-bes (plural)