allowable

Speech parts

1. allowable - Noun

2. allowable - Adjective

3. allowable - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Praiseworthy; laudable.

Proper to be, or capable of being, allowed; permissible; admissible; not forbidden; not unlawful or improper; as, a certain degree of freedom is allowable among friends.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

permissible possible right open allow legal tenable proper appropriate approved suitable valid constitutional acceptable legitimate
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Antonyms

tabu serpentine crooked scornful impermissible sigmoid
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Phrases with the word

more allowable less allowable not allowable allowable error

Examples

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other. Miguel de Cervantes

Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt. Isaac Barrow

Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect. Pierre Corneille

Man is sadly retarded by allowable imperfections. Henry S. Haskins

There are allowable limits for radiation going - I mean there's radiation all around us. There's radiation from your television set. There's radiation from your computer. There's radiation actually occurring in the ground. William Scranton

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and EPA, et cetera, had worked out what allowable releases are. William Scranton

Close letter words and terms

allow us allow ventilation allowability allowable error allowableness allowably