passable
adjective/ˈpɑːsəbl/
/ˈpæsəbl/
- fairly good but not excellent synonym satisfactory
- She put on a passable imitation of a Scottish accent.
- I speak passable Greek.
- If you can't get malted barley syrup, molasses is a passable substitute.
- She did a passable job of fixing her make-up.
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- [not usually before noun] if a road or a river is passable, it is not blocked and you can travel along or across it
- The mountain roads are not passable until late spring.
Extra ExamplesTopics Transport by car or lorryc2- The main staircase was just passable.
- making the roads passable for light vehicles
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French, from passer ‘to pass’.
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