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passable

adj
/ˈpæsəbəl/US

Etymology

From French passable, equivalent to pass + -able.

  1. derived from passable

Definitions

  1. That may be passed or traversed.

  2. Tolerable

    Tolerable; adequate; no more than satisfactory.

    • AIs are no longer just producing passable five-paragraph essays. Now they’re excelling at the SAT, “earning” a score of 1410.

  3. able to "pass", or be accepted as a member of a race, sex or other group to which society…

    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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at passable. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at passable. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at passable

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA