adj
Meaning 1
That may be passed or traversed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
passable
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American: /ˈpæsəbəl/
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CMU ARPABET: P AE1 S AH0 B AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Tolerable; adequate; no more than satisfactory.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
able to "pass", or be accepted as a member of a race, sex or other group to which society would not otherwise regard one as belonging.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, sciences, social-science, sociology
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 4
able to be passed or traversed or crossed
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the road is passable
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: impassable
adjective satellite
Meaning 5
about average; acceptable
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- more than adequate as a secretary
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: adequate, fair to middling, tolerable
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From French passable, equivalent to pass + -able.
Across languages
Translations
28 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: проходим (prohodim) — That may be passed or traversed
- Catalan: transitable — That may be passed or traversed
- Finnish: kulkukelpoinen — That may be passed or traversed
- German: passierbar — That may be passed or traversed
- Greek: διαβατός (diavatós) — That may be passed or traversed
- Ancient Greek: βάσιμος (básimos) — That may be passed or traversed
- Italian: passabile — That may be passed or traversed
- Latin: pervius — That may be passed or traversed
- Norwegian Bokmål: farbar — That may be passed or traversed
- Norwegian Nynorsk: farbar — That may be passed or traversed
- Polish: przekraczalny — That may be passed or traversed
- Spanish: pasable — That may be passed or traversed
- Spanish: pasadero — That may be passed or traversed
- Bulgarian: сносен (snosen) — Tolerable; satisfactory; adequate
- Catalan: passable — Tolerable; satisfactory; adequate
- Finnish: välttävä — Tolerable; satisfactory; adequate
- Galician: pasadeiro — Tolerable; satisfactory; adequate
- German: passabel — Tolerable; satisfactory; adequate
- Greek: μέτριος (métrios) — Tolerable; satisfactory; adequate
- Greek: υποφερτός (ypofertós) — Tolerable; satisfactory; adequate
- Hungarian: elfogadható — Tolerable; satisfactory; adequate
- Icelandic: slarkfær — Tolerable; satisfactory; adequate
- Icelandic: sæmilegur — Tolerable; satisfactory; adequate
- Portuguese: aceitável — Tolerable; satisfactory; adequate
- Portuguese: passável — Tolerable; satisfactory; adequate
- Scottish Gaelic: cuibheasach — Tolerable; satisfactory; adequate
- Spanish: pasadero — Tolerable; satisfactory; adequate
- Portuguese: passável — able to be accepted as a member of a race, sex or other group