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passable adjective 1. adequate, middling, average, fair, all right, ordinary, acceptable, moderate, fair enough, mediocre, so-so (informal), tolerable, not too bad, allowable, presentable, admissible, unexceptional, half-pie (N.Z. informal) The meal was passable, but nothing special. adequate extraordinary, outstanding, superb, first-class, marvellous, exceptional, tops (slang), inadequate, unacceptable, unsatisfactory, inadmissible, A1 or A-one (informal) 2. clear, open, navigable, unobstructed, traversable, crossable muddy mountain roads that are barely passable clear closed, blocked, obstructed, sealed off, impassable, unnavigable Translations passable [ˈpɑːsəbəl] adj [road] → praticable (= quite good) → correct(e) His work's passable, but → Son travail est correct, mais ... She speaks passable French → Elle parle un français correct. very passable (= perfectly good) → tout à fait correct(e) to give a passable imitation of sb → assez bien imiter qn He gave a passable imitation of his dad → Il a assez bien imité son père. passable adj → passierbar; road etc → befahrbar, passierbar passable [ˈpɑːsəbl] adj a. (tolerable) → passabile; (work) → accettabile b. (road) → transitabile, praticabile; (river) → attraversabile passable [ˈpɑːsəbl] adj a. (tolerable) → passabile; (work) → accettabile b. (road) → transitabile, praticabile; (river) → attraversabile How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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And yet, where there is no eminent odds in sufficiency, it is better to take with the more passable, than with the more able. Our way now lay through a region scarce passable, and full of serpents, which were continually creeping between our legs; we might have avoided them in the day, but being obliged, that we might avoid the excessive heats, to take long marches in the night, we were every moment treading upon them. With this added incentive I nearly drove Sola distracted by my importunities to hasten on my education and within a few more days I had mastered the Martian tongue sufficiently well to enable me to carry on a passable conversation and to fully understand practically all that I heard. |
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