say it: puh-TEN-shuh-lee
potentially is an adverb meaning "with a possibility of becoming actual". It carries one recorded sense.
with a possibility of becoming actual
“he is potentially dangerous”
“potentially useful”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for potentially come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.
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