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Definition of passably in English: passablyadverb ˈpɑːsəbliˈpæsəbli In a way that is just good enough; reasonably. as submodifier he was passably attractive Example sentencesExamples - I didn't want to go to the ball at all, but as Mother insisted I did attend, I would at least look passably pretty.
- In that regard, the Christmas drives do passably well for the month of December and, if the people and organizations marshal their resources well, into January.
- If they can't, it's usually fairly easy to teach them to do so passably.
- But what I find most surprising is that I think they've all been passably good.
- I submitted the piece: I thought it passably written, and the subject is important.
- Forget the music, passably good, though, it is.
- She'll use that deformed arm to play the piano passably well and to complete elaborate needlework projects.
- Any number of terms have already been coined to describe postindustrial labor, and the authors' own elaborations on the phenomenon are passably interesting.
- The kitchen made a passably good job of smoked haddock eggs Benedict.
- She was passably pretty, with large green eyes and flowing golden curls.
- However even a passably careful reading of the thing reveals that it fails to provide significant evidence that Clark supported the war.
- An NSF panel recommended that internet voting begin only slowly, starting with dedicated kiosks which could be made passably secure with currently existing technology.
- Every rating learned to cook by cooking for his shipmates, and therefore, if he were to keep the friendly esteem of his mess, he would need to learn to make the best of his often unpromising ingredients, to cook passably well.
- Neither working class nor gentry, the family was passably well to do, passably well educated, and, I suppose, somewhere in the lower middle of middle class.
- The beach and the last of the passably cold ocean waters beckon.
- This score may function passably within the context of the film, but outside it is meaningless, barely raising even a frisson of fear.
- She's just a passably pretty girl from Llanelli with a bit of a tip about herself.
- While the film won't win an Oscar, as the previous adaptation did way back in 1956, the film passably succeeds as a family/kids movie.
- Well having no money, I wear anything that I have a free sample of (as long as it's passably nice).
- But it was still interesting, nonetheless - to hear their elementary analysis made to sound slightly profound and passably deep.
Synonyms quite, rather, somewhat, fairly, reasonably, moderately, comparatively, relatively, after a fashion, to a limited extent/degree, to a certain degree, to some extent, tolerably adequately, satisfactorily informal pretty, ish
Definition of passably in US English: passablyadverbˈpasəblēˈpæsəbli In a way that is just good enough. as submodifier he was passably attractive Example sentencesExamples - Forget the music, passably good, though, it is.
- But what I find most surprising is that I think they've all been passably good.
- The beach and the last of the passably cold ocean waters beckon.
- She's just a passably pretty girl from Llanelli with a bit of a tip about herself.
- Neither working class nor gentry, the family was passably well to do, passably well educated, and, I suppose, somewhere in the lower middle of middle class.
- This score may function passably within the context of the film, but outside it is meaningless, barely raising even a frisson of fear.
- Any number of terms have already been coined to describe postindustrial labor, and the authors' own elaborations on the phenomenon are passably interesting.
- In that regard, the Christmas drives do passably well for the month of December and, if the people and organizations marshal their resources well, into January.
- Every rating learned to cook by cooking for his shipmates, and therefore, if he were to keep the friendly esteem of his mess, he would need to learn to make the best of his often unpromising ingredients, to cook passably well.
- She'll use that deformed arm to play the piano passably well and to complete elaborate needlework projects.
- But it was still interesting, nonetheless - to hear their elementary analysis made to sound slightly profound and passably deep.
- While the film won't win an Oscar, as the previous adaptation did way back in 1956, the film passably succeeds as a family/kids movie.
- I submitted the piece: I thought it passably written, and the subject is important.
- I didn't want to go to the ball at all, but as Mother insisted I did attend, I would at least look passably pretty.
- Well having no money, I wear anything that I have a free sample of (as long as it's passably nice).
- An NSF panel recommended that internet voting begin only slowly, starting with dedicated kiosks which could be made passably secure with currently existing technology.
- However even a passably careful reading of the thing reveals that it fails to provide significant evidence that Clark supported the war.
- The kitchen made a passably good job of smoked haddock eggs Benedict.
- She was passably pretty, with large green eyes and flowing golden curls.
- If they can't, it's usually fairly easy to teach them to do so passably.
Synonyms quite, rather, somewhat, fairly, reasonably, moderately, comparatively, relatively, after a fashion, to a limited degree, to a limited extent, to a certain degree, to some extent, tolerably
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