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passable Adjective 1. adequate or acceptable: passable if hardly faultless German 2. (of a road, path, etc.) capable of being travelled along: most main roads are passable with care despite the snow passably adv
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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) << OPPOSITE unsatisfactory Translations 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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