passable

That may be passed or traversed.

Adjective

  1. That may be passed or traversed.
  2. 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...
    • AIs are no longer just producing passable five-paragraph essays. Now they’re excelling at the SAT, “earning” a score of 1410. - 2023 March 21, Ian Bogost, “Is This the Singularity for Standardized Tests?”, in The...
  3. 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....

Origin

From French passable, equivalent to pass + -able.

Forms

more passable most passable

Synonyms

satisfactory

Derived

passability passableness passably unpassable