passable
adjective
pass·able ˈpa-sə-bəl 
1
a
: capable of being passed, crossed, or traveled on
passable roads
b
: capable of being freely circulated
2
: good enough : adequate
Examples of passable in a Sentence
The main road is passable but most others are still covered with snow. The river is passable during the summer months. He did a passable job with the assignment. She plays passable golf but prefers tennis.
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Residents in the Blackhawk subdivision area should evacuate immediately for safety reasons while the road remains passable, the DNR said. —
Chris Ramirez, jsonline.com, 17 Apr. 2026 Hit Rocky Mountain and Glacier in late August or early September—Going-to-the-Sun Road and Trail Ridge Road should still be open and passable. —Jacqueline Kehoe, Travel + Leisure, 13 Apr. 2026 Pedestrians are reminded to keep sidewalks passable and get out of the way of emergency vehicles. —Adam Harrington, CBS News, 26 Mar. 2026 In barely three years, AI has gone from a novelty that could write passable college essays to a technology that can generate lifelike video, clone human voices, and write software code so effectively that people with no programming experience are building apps on their own. —Andrew Rasiej, New York Daily News, 22 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for passable
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Chris Ramirez, jsonline.com, 17 Apr. 2026 Hit Rocky Mountain and Glacier in late August or early September—Going-to-the-Sun Road and Trail Ridge Road should still be open and passable. —Jacqueline Kehoe, Travel + Leisure, 13 Apr. 2026 Pedestrians are reminded to keep sidewalks passable and get out of the way of emergency vehicles. —Adam Harrington, CBS News, 26 Mar. 2026 In barely three years, AI has gone from a novelty that could write passable college essays to a technology that can generate lifelike video, clone human voices, and write software code so effectively that people with no programming experience are building apps on their own. —Andrew Rasiej, New York Daily News, 22 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for passable
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“Passable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/dictionary/passable. Accessed 25 Apr. 2026.
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passable
adjective
pass·able ˈpas-ə-bəl
1
: capable of being passed, crossed, or traveled on
passable roads
2
: barely good enough : tolerable
a passable imitation
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