passable Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective able to be passed or traversed or crossed
    • the road is passable
  2. adjective satellite about average; acceptable
    adequate; fair to middling; tolerable.
    • more than adequate as a secretary

WordNet

Pass"a*ble adjective
Etymology
Cf. F. passable.
Definitions
  1. Capable of being passed, traveled, navigated, traversed, penetrated, or the like; as, the roads are not passable; the stream is passablein boats.
    His body's a passable carcass if it be not hurt; it is a throughfare for steel. Shak.
  2. Capable of being freely circulated or disseminated; acceptable; generally receivable; current.
    With men as with false money -- one piece is more or less passable than another. L'Estrange.
    Could they have made this slander passable. Collier.
  3. Such as may be allowed to pass without serious objection; tolerable; admissable; moderate; mediocre.
    My version will appear a passable beauty when the original muse is absent. Dryden.

Webster 1913