CONCEIVABLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does conceivably mean? 

• CONCEIVABLY (adverb)
  The adverb CONCEIVABLY has 1 sense:

1. within the realm of possibility

  Familiarity information: CONCEIVABLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONCEIVABLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Within the realm of possibility

Context example:

the weather may conceivably change

Pertainym:

conceivable (capable of being imagined)

 Context examples 

You may conceivably have overlooked it.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Could conceivably occur as part of a spectrum of GU developmental abnormality (e.g., 5-alpha-reductase deficiency in humans).

(Non-proliferative Developmental Conditions of the Mouse Prostate Gland, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

He meets his death five miles from the school—not by a bullet, mark you, which even a lad might conceivably discharge, but by a savage blow dealt by a vigorous arm.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A man who had read deeply about Napoleon, or who had possibly received some hereditary family injury through the great war, might conceivably form such an idée fixe and under its influence be capable of any fantastic outrage.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But conceivably Wilson had heard some of these same explanations before, from Myrtle, because he began saying "Oh, my God!" again in a whisper—his comforter left several explanations in the air.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)