What part of speech is passable?

Passable can be categorized as an adjective.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. passable is an adjective.

Inflections

Adjective

  • Positive
    Comparative
    Superlative
  • more passable
    most passable
  • Positive: passable 
  • Comparative: more passable
  • Superlative: most passable

What does passable mean?

Definitions

Adjective

passable - able to be passed or traversed or crossed; "the road is passable"
passable - about average; acceptable; "more than adequate as a secretary"

Examples of passable

#   Sentence  
1. adj. The road is passable.
2. adj. It's passable. Nothing out of the ordinary.
3. adj. The constituents of a word salad are neither random nor unrelated, but connected by a net so torn that only detours remain passable.
4. adj. He speaks passable French, but he is clearly more fluent in German.
5. adj. Although I speak passable French, don't expect me to be able to give a speech at Jérôme's wedding.
6. adj. Tom speaks passable Hindi and Russian.
Sentence  
adj.
The road is passable.
It's passable. Nothing out of the ordinary.
The constituents of a word salad are neither random nor unrelated, but connected by a net so torn that only detours remain passable.
He speaks passable French, but he is clearly more fluent in German.
Although I speak passable French, don't expect me to be able to give a speech at Jérôme's wedding.
Tom speaks passable Hindi and Russian.

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