passable
/ˈpæsəbəl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.80 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Tolerable; adequate; no more than satisfactory.
Example Sentences
- "The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure."
- "AIs are no longer just producing passable five-paragraph essays. Now they’re excelling at the SAT, “earning” a score of 1410."
- "The idea of something, or someone, being unusual and sexual is intoxicating. I concluded that if I ever met a very passable transsexual and we were attracted to one another, I'd go bisexual and pursue the relationship."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: passable
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈpæsəbəl/
Inflected Forms
more passable (comparative)
most passable (superlative)