All potential synonyms

adj potential

• promising — giving favorable promise; likely to turn out well: a promising young man; a promising situation.
• likely — probably or apparently destined (usually followed by an infinitive): something not likely to happen.
• hidden — concealed; obscure; covert: hidden meaning; hidden hostility.
• possible — that may or can be, exist, happen, be done, be used, etc.: a disease with no possible cure.
• probable — likely to occur or prove true: He foresaw a probable business loss. He is the probable writer of the article.
• budding — If you describe someone as, for example, a budding businessman or a budding artist, you mean that they are starting to succeed or become interested in business or art.
• future — time that is to be or come hereafter.
• conceivable — If something is conceivable, you can imagine it or believe it.
• dormant — lying asleep or as if asleep; inactive, as in sleep; torpid: The lecturer's sudden shout woke the dormant audience.
• imaginable — capable of being imagined or conceived.
• implied — involved, indicated, or suggested without being directly or explicitly stated; tacitly understood: an implied rebuke; an implied compliment.
• inherent — existing in someone or something as a permanent and inseparable element, quality, or attribute; inhering: an inherent distrust of strangers.
• latent — present but not visible, apparent, or actualized; existing as potential: latent ability.
• lurking — to lie or wait in concealment, as a person in ambush; remain in or around a place secretly or furtively.
• plausible — having an appearance of truth or reason; seemingly worthy of approval or acceptance; credible; believable: a plausible excuse; a plausible plot.
• quiescent — being at rest; quiet; still; inactive or motionless: a quiescent mind.
• thinkable — capable of being thought; conceivable.
• undeveloped — not developed.
• abeyant — temporarily inactive, stopped, or suspended.
• prepatent — the exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain number of years.
• unrealized — not made real or actual; not resulting in accomplishment, as a task or aim: unrealized ambitions.