permissible
that can be permitted; allowable: a permissible amount of sentimentality under the circumstances; Such behavior is not permissible!
Origin of permissible
1Other words for permissible
Other words from permissible
- per·mis·si·bil·i·ty, per·mis·si·ble·ness, noun
- per·mis·si·bly, adverb
- non·per·mis·si·bil·i·ty, noun
- non·per·mis·si·ble, adjective
- non·per·mis·si·bly, adverb
- un·per·mis·si·ble, adjective
- un·per·mis·si·bly, adverb
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How to use permissible in a sentence
He was tormented by a question he had been threshing out for days: Might he permissibly have sent her a Christmas present?
The Trail of the Hawk | Sinclair LewisPermissibly we may suppose that his wife succeeded in gleaning from him few details of the fair.
Dead Souls | Nikolai Vasilievich GogolHard it was too to subdue himself—to be always courteous, never more than permissibly ironical, to wait for his victory.
Double Harness | Anthony Hope
British Dictionary definitions for permissible
/ (pəˈmɪsəbəl) /
permitted; allowable
Derived forms of permissible
- permissibility, noun
- permissibly, adverb
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