Potential
- Existing in possibility, not in actuality.
Synonyms: noumenal, spiritual, virtual
Antonyms: actual, phenomenal, real
(archaic) Being potent; endowed with energy adequate to a result quotations ▼
Synonyms: efficacious, influential
(physics) A potential field is an irrotational (static) field. quotations ▼
(physics) A potential flow is an irrotational flow. quotations ▼
(grammar) Referring to a verbal construction of form stating something is possible or probable.