Passable meaning

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Capable of being passed, traversed, or crossed; navigable.

A passable road.

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Acceptable for general circulation.

Passable currency.

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Satisfactory but not outstanding; adequate.

The actors gave passable performances, but the singers seemed unrehearsed.

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Capable of being enacted.

A passable bill.

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That can be passed, traveled over, or crossed.
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That can be circulated; genuine, as coin.
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Satisfactory or barely satisfactory for the purpose; adequate.
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That can be enacted, as a proposed law.
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That may be passed or traversed.
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Origin of passable

  • From French passable

    From Wiktionary

Passable Sentence Examples

  • Very few in the entire Sierra are passable by vehicles.

  • Using instant potatoes she managed to make a passable potato salad and opened a can of baked beans.

  • The island thus divides the seaward approach to St Petersburg into two channels; that on the northern side is obstructed by shoals which extend across it from Kotlin to Lisynos on the Finnish mainland, and is only passable by vessels drawing less than 15 ft.

  • A: Telling big hairy trannies they look quite passable.

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