英和和英

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˈpæsəbəl/

形容詞

passable (comparative more passable, superlative most passable)

1. That may be passed or traversed.
2. Tolerable; adequate; no more than satisfactory.
   • 2013 August 3, “The machine of a new soul”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:

     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.

   • 2023 March 21, Ian Bogost, “Is This the Singularity for Standardized Tests?”, in The Atlantic‎, archived from the original on 25 March 2023:

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

3. (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.
   • 2014, Paul Stryker, Confessions of a Sex Offender, page 33:

     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.

同意語

• (adequate): See Thesaurus:satisfactory

派生語