- simple past tense of may1.
- (used to express possibility): They might be at the station.
- (used to express advisability): You might at least thank me.
- (used in polite requests for permission): Might I speak to you for a moment?
- physical strength: He swung with all his might.
- superior power or strength; force: the theory that might makes right.
- power or ability to do or accomplish; capacity: the might of the ballot box.
- with all the vigor, force, or energy at one's command: They pulled with might and main.
- making the past tense or subjunctive mood of may 1 he might have come last night
- expressing theoretical possibility: he might well come . In this sense might looks to the future and functions as a weak form of may
- power, force, or vigour, esp of a great or supreme kind
- physical strength
- (with) might and main See main 1 (def. 8)
