'Passable' definitions:
Definition of 'passable'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Able to be passed or traversed or crossed; "the road is passable" [ant: impassable, unpassable]
adjective
About average; acceptable; "more than adequate as a secretary" [syn: adequate, passable, fair to middling, tolerable]
Definition of 'Passable'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Synonyms of 'passable'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acceptable,
- accessible,
- adequate,
- admissible,
- agreeable,
- all right,
- allowable,
- alright,
- attainable,
- average,
- better than nothing,
- betwixt and between,
- decent,
- dull,
- fair,
- fair to middling,
- fairish,
- good enough,
- goodish,
- indifferent,
- insipid,
- lackluster,
- mediocre,
- medium,
- middling,
- moderate,
- modest,
- namby-pamby,
- navigable,
- negotiable,
- not amiss,
- not bad,
- not half bad,
- not so bad,
- of a kind,
- of a sort,
- of sorts,
- OK,
- okay,
- open,
- presentable,
- pretty good,
- reachable,
- respectable,
- satisfactory,
- so so,
- so-so,
- sufficient,
- tedious,
- tenable,
- tidy,
- tolerable,
- traversable,
- unblocked,
- unexceptionable,
- unexceptional,
- unobjectionable,
- unobstructed,
- vapid,
- viable,
- wishy-washy,
- workmanlike