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Definition of Passable

1. Adjective. Able to be passed or traversed or crossed. "The road is passable"

2. Adjective. About average; acceptable. "More than adequate as a secretary"

Definition of Passable

1. a. Capable of being passed, traveled, navigated, traversed, penetrated, or the like; as, the roads are not passable; the stream is passablein boats.

Definition of Passable

1. Adjective. That may be passed or traversed. ¹

2. Adjective. Tolerable; satisfactory; adequate. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Passable

1. fairly good or acceptable [adj] : PASSABLY [adv]

Literary usage of Passable

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of the French Revolution by Adolphe Thiers (1840)
"After four days' incredible efforts, the road was rendered passable for artillery.* and Moreau arrived in the Riviera of Genoa without retrograding to the ..."

2. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"Boddington preserved euch a general level of passable merit that no oue picture can be selected as excelling in a remarkable degree. ..."

3. The Bookman (1907)
"It George Ade in Zenda Vein Slim Princess will furnish an hour's very passable entertainment. The hero is a young American of engaging appearance, ..."

4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1822)
"... be- like a passable duty-man out of all ' Stop, stop a little, my lads !" cried cruize expires, I give him my honour the Captain, halting 'the foremost ..."

5. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
"They had no style or spring—that would come in time — but as far as they went they were passable. I met Maydew one day and inquired after their health. ..."

6. Camera (1907)
"With a latitude of 3600 per cent., it seems to me any one ought to guess near enough to make a passable bromide print from almost anything. ..."

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