1 fairly good but not excellent
SYNSATISFACTORY:
She put on a passable imitation of a Scottish accent. * He served a bottle of very passable claret with the meal.
2 [notusuallybeforenoun] 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.
OPPIMPASSABLE
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
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Is passable a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, passable is tagged as adjective.
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