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ADMISSIBLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does admissible mean?
• ADMISSIBLE (adjective)
The adjective ADMISSIBLE has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: ADMISSIBLE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Deserving to be admitted
Context example:
admissible evidence
Similar:
admittable; admittible (deserving to be allowed to enter)
allowable (deserving to be allowed or considered)
permissible (that may be accepted or conceded)
Attribute:
admissibility (acceptability by virtue of being admissible)
Antonym:
inadmissible (not deserving to be admitted)
Derivation:
admissibility (acceptability by virtue of being admissible)
Context examples
But the expression is hardly admissible, Mrs. Weston, is it?
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
“If it were admissible to contradict a lady,” said the gallant Mr. Elton—“I have perhaps given her a little more decision of character, have taught her to think on points which had not fallen in her way before.”
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
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