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adjective

Passable adj.

Capable of being passed, traveled, navigated, traversed, penetrated, or the like; as, the roads are not passable; the stream is passablein boats. "His body's a passable carcass if it be not hurt; it is a throughfare for steel."

Capable of being freely circulated or disseminated; acceptable; generally receivable; current. "With men as with false money one piece is more or less passable than another." "Could they have made this slander passable."

Such as may be accepted or allowed to pass without serious objection; adequate; acceptable; tolerable; admissable; moderate; mediocre. "My version will appear a passable beauty when the original muse is absent."

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Etymology of 'Passable'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Passable" Quotes from Famous Books

... as the crow flies, but Buck was no aviator. He was forced to take a most tortuous, roundabout route, and when he finally emerged on the first passable track heading approximately in the right direction, the sun was low and there seemed little chance of his accomplishing his purpose in the few hours ...

— Shoe-Bar Stratton • Joseph Bushnell Ames

... might as well keep her, Sargent," said Mrs. Severance placidly. "You will have to pay her blackmail, of course—but after all that's really your fault a little, isn't it?—and it seems as if that was more or less what you had to do with any kind of passable servant nowadays. And Elizabeth is perfection—as a servant. As police—" she smiled a little cruelly. "Well, we shan't go into that, but I think it would be so much better to keep her. Then we'll be getting something out of her in return for our blackmail, ...

— Young People's Pride • Stephen Vincent Benet

... hands hang over the arms of it—the picture of discontent. The gaslight showed her the possessor of bright brown eyes, under fine brows slenderly but clearly marked, of a pink and white skin slightly freckled, of a small nose quite passable, but no ways remarkable, of a dainty little chin, and a thin-lipped mouth, slightly raised at one corner, and opening readily over some irregular but very white teeth. Except for the eyes and eyebrows the features could claim nothing much in ...

— The History of David Grieve • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... can wear their own plain soft low-heeled slippers. The rich folk in the chancel wear their own slippers and draw on over them, socks dyed to match the tights; these socks if rolled down at the top make a very passable substitute for the Romeo shoe of the ...

— Why the Chimes Rang: A Play in One Act • Elizabeth Apthorp McFadden

... you expire, we may teach you a little on these smoother paths; and hire one perhaps, by the time the stones are passable. Just at present, I think our own legs and Pixy's ...

— Modern Broods • Charlotte Mary Yonge

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