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admissible

  • /ədˈmɪsəbəl/

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Borrowed from Middle French admissible. Equivalent to admit + -ible

adjective more admissible · most admissible · admissable

  1. Capable or deserving to be admitted, accepted or allowed; allowable, permissible, acceptable. Moreover, the term [...] is well recorded in British and Australian sources from the 1840s onwards, while the earliest Anglo-Indian evidence only extends as far back as 1865 and so does not hold precedence. Thus, deriving the term from Hindustani is not chronologically admissible on present evidence

    Similar: abideable, supportable, tolerable, acceptable, admissible, allowable, permissible, sufferable · Opposite: inadmissible

  2. Describing a heuristic that never overestimates the cost of reaching a goal.

    Opposite: inadmissible

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adj capable or deserving to be admitted, accepted or allowed

Españoladmisible, aceptable
हिन्दीस्वीकार्य svīkārya
Portuguêsadmissível
Françaisadmissible
Deutschakzeptabel, annehmbar, zulässig
Italianoammissibile
Ελληνικάπαραδεκτός paradektós
Românăadmisibil
Русскийдопусти́мый dopustímyj, прие́млемый prijémlemyj

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@misc{admissible_2026,
  title = {admissible},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/admissible},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}