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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. able to be passed or traversed or crossed;
- Example: "the road is passable"

2. about average; acceptable;
- Example: "more than adequate as a secretary"
[syn: adequate, passable, fair to middling, tolerable]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Passable \Pass"a*ble\, a. [Cf. F. passable.] 1. Capable of being passed, traveled, navigated, traversed, penetrated, or the like; as, the roads are not passable; the stream is passablein boats. [1913 Webster] His body's a passable carcass if it be not hurt; it is a throughfare for steel. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. Capable of being freely circulated or disseminated; acceptable; generally receivable; current. [1913 Webster] With men as with false money -- one piece is more or less passable than another. --L'Estrange. [1913 Webster] Could they have made this slander passable. --Collier. [1913 Webster] 3. Such as may be accepted or allowed to pass without serious objection; adequate; acceptable; tolerable; admissable; moderate; mediocre. [1913 Webster +PJC] My version will appear a passable beauty when the original muse is absent. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

passable adj 1: able to be passed or traversed or crossed; "the road is passable" [ant: impassable, unpassable] 2: about average; acceptable; "more than adequate as a secretary" [syn: adequate, passable, fair to middling, tolerable]