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Perhaps vs Though - What's the difference?

perhaps | though |

As adverbs the difference between perhaps and though

is that perhaps is while though is (lb) despite that; however.

As a conjunction though is

despite the fact that; although.

perhaps

English

Alternative forms

* (l)

Adverb

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    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed.}}
  • * , chapter=7
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=With some of it on the south and more of it on the north of the great main thoroughfare that connects Aldgate and the East India Docks, St.?Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Fantasy of navigation , passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].}}
  • (rare) By chance.
  • * "...will live until he dies perhaps , and then lie down in clover." --Landlord, Fill the Flowing Bowl (song)

    • Synonyms

    * belike * maybe * mayhap * peradventure * perchance

    Statistics

    * English hedges English modal adverbs

    though

    English

    Alternative forms

    * tho *

    Adverb

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  • (lb) Despite that; however.
  • :
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Old soldiers? , passage=Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine.
  • (lb) Used to intensify statements or questions; indeed.
  • :

    • Synonyms

    * (despite that) all the same, anyhow, anyway, even so, in any case, nevertheless, nonetheless, still, yet

    Conjunction

    (English Conjunctions)
  • Despite the fact that; although.
  • :
  • *
  • *:Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.
  • (lb) If, that, even if.
  • :
  • * 1945 , (Oscar Hammerstein II), “ (musical)
  • *:Walk on through the wind, / Walk on through the rain, / Though your dreams be tossed and blown.

    • Usage notes

    * (if) This sense is now archaic, except in the fixed expression (as though).

    Synonyms

    * (although) although, even though

    Statistics

    * English conjunctive adverbs English degree adverbs 1000 English basic words