passable
Collocations
5ADJ.
english, longer, transsexual
VERB + PASSABLE
met, producing, remain, speak, speaks
PASSABLE + NOUN
essays, five-paragraph, french, hindi, knowledge, nothing, russian
PREP.
out, until
ADV.
also, only
Definitions
adj
That may be passed or traversed.
Tolerable; adequate; no more than satisfactory.
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.
able to "pass", or be accepted as a member of a race, sex or other group to which society would not otherwise regard one as belonging.
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.
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6The 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,
WiktionaryAIs are no longer just producing passable five-paragraph essays. Now they’re excelling at the SAT, “earning” a score of 1410.
WiktionaryThe 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
WiktionaryIt's passable. Nothing out of the ordinary.
Tatoeba · #328843The constituents of a word salad are neither random nor unrelated, but connected by a net so torn that only detours remain passable.
Tatoeba · #2027744He speaks passable French, but he is clearly more fluent in German.
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