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
The other scenario that could make live entertainment permissible under existing state rules would be if strip clubs opened with a drive-in theater format, the spokesman added.
Morning Report: Seditious Language Tickets and the Problems With ‘Low-Visibility Policing’ | Voice of San Diego | October 15, 2020 | Voice of San DiegoShe voted that discrimination against older job applicants is permissible, asserting that job protections that apply to workers do not protect job applicants.
Why a very conservative Supreme Court will be bad for business | matthewheimer | October 13, 2020 | FortuneIt’s not clear what is permissible and not in terms of foreign interference in elections.
Why security experts are braced for the next election hack-and-leak | Bobbie Johnson | September 29, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewRegulators determined the utility violated regulations that govern permissible distance between electrically live cables, equipment and tree branches.
Regulators Approve SDG&E Wildfire Plan Despite Serious Flaw | MacKenzie Elmer | September 25, 2020 | Voice of San DiegoIt’s now permissible to take sides on social and political issues.
Administration lawyers also approved the "enhanced interrogation techniques" and said they were legally permissible.
[But] it is permissible to separate them if the children are grown and mature.
Question 7: Is it permissible to separate a mother from her children through [the act of] buying and selling?
The consensus leans toward forbidding it, though some people of knowledge think it permissible.
(2) If a creative professional wants to volunteer to help a for-profit business, that is permissible.
If this were not permissible, the number of the grandest creations of artistic genius would be most seriously limited.
Antonio Stradivari | Horace William PetherickAccording to our creed it was not permissible for a gentleman, drunk or sober, to mention a lady's name in a place like that.
The Way of a Man | Emerson HoughNor are serene and even joyous moods so rare that it would be permissible to ignore them.
Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician | Frederick NiecksThe cuffs and collar must be of plain linen, no color or flutter of ribbon being anywhere permissible.
Horsemanship for Women | Theodore Hoe MeadUpon what, then, is based the opinion that divorce is permissible in case of infidelity on the part of the woman?
My Religion | Leo Tolstoy
British Dictionary definitions for permissible
/ (pəˈmɪsəbəl) /
permitted; allowable
Derived forms of permissible
- permissibility, noun
- permissibly, adverb
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