Usually means: Adequate but not very impressive.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word passable:

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  1. passable: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. passable: Merriam-Webster
  3. passable: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. passable: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. passable: Collins English Dictionary
  6. passable: Vocabulary.com
  7. Passable, passable: Wordnik
  8. passable: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. passable: Wiktionary
  10. passable: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. passable: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. passable: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Passable, passable: Dictionary.com
  14. passable: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. passable: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Passable: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. passable: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. passable: Rhymezone
  19. Passable: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. passable: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. passable: FreeDictionary.org
  22. passable: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. passable: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. passable: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. passable: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. passable: Urban Dictionary

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adjective:  That may be passed or traversed.
adjective:  Tolerable; adequate; no more than satisfactory.
adjective:  (sociology) 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.

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