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Passable   /pˈæsəbəl/   Listen
Passable

adjective
1.
Able to be passed or traversed or crossed.
2.
About average; acceptable.  Synonyms: adequate, fair to middling, tolerable.






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"Passable" Quotes from Famous Books



... bridge crosses the North River just above the junction, carrying the Harrisonburg road into Port Republic; but the South River, which cuts off Port Republic from the Luray Valley, is passable ...
— Stonewall Jackson And The American Civil War • G. F. R. Henderson

... women of this race Are passable, good even, but the men With dirty hands and narrow greed of gain— This girl shall not be touched by such a one. Indeed, she has to better ones belonged. But then, what's that to me?—If thus or thus, If near or far—they may ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. VI. • Editor-in-Chief: Kuno Francke

... Mangrove, on two good stout mules, and a black guide running before me with a long stick, with which he sprung over the sloughs and stones in the road with great agility; I would have backed him against many a passable hunter, to do four miles over a close country in ...
— Tom Cringle's Log • Michael Scott

... dues. Wear-and-tear plus luxury is said to break down the human system more rapidly than wear-and-tear plus want; but perhaps wear-and-tear plus pensive self-consideration is the most destructive agent of all. "Apres tout, c'est un monde passable"; and the Duchess of Gordon was too busy acquainting herself with this fact to count the costs, or even ...
— Americans and Others • Agnes Repplier

... ways than the average man, on a level with most as regarded his outlook on life and its possibilities. He had never been very deeply moved over anything. Things had always gone smoothly with him, and he had passed through school and college with quite passable success and complete satisfaction in himself and his surroundings. His love for Hilda Ryder was the best and highest thing in his whole life; and in his attempt to become what she believed him to be he rose to a ...
— Afterwards • Kathlyn Rhodes


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