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passable |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. His body's a passable carcass if it be not hurt; it is a throughfare for steel. --Shak. 2. 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. --L'Estrange. Could they have made this slander passable. --Collier. 3. Such as may be allowed to pass without serious objection; tolerable; admissable; moderate; mediocre. My version will appear a passable beauty when the original muse is absent. --Dryden. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: passable adj 1: able to be passed or traversed or crossed; "the road is passable" [ant: {impassable}] 2: about average; acceptable; "more than adequate as a secretary" [syn: {adequate}, {fair to middling}] 3: neither good nor bad "an indifferent performance"; "a gifted painter but an indifferent actor"; "her work at the office is passable"; "a so-so golfer"; "feeling only so-so"; "prepared a tolerable dinner"; "a tolerable working knowledge of French" [syn: {indifferent}, {so-so(p)}, {tolerable}]
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