admissible

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: ad=mis=si=ble

CIDE DICTIONARY

admissible, a. [F. admissible, LL. admissibilis. See Admit.].

 Entitled to be admitted, or worthy of being admitted; that may be allowed or conceded; allowable; as, the supposition is hardly admissible.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

admissible, adj.
1 (of an idea or plan) worth accepting or considering.
2 Law allowable as evidence.
3 (foll. by to) capable of being admitted.

Derivative

admissibility n.

Etymology

F admissible or med.L admissibilis (as ADMIT)

THESAURUS

admissible

OK, a propos, absolute, acceptable, ad rem, adducible, adequate, admissive, admissory, agreeable, all right, allowable, alright, appertaining, applicable, applying, apposite, appropriate, apropos, attestative, attestive, authentic, based on, belonging, better than nothing, certain, circumstantial, cogent, conclusive, condonable, convincing, credible, cumulative, damning, decent, decisive, defensible, desirable, determinative, dispensable, documentary, documented, eligible, enfranchised, evidential, evidentiary, ex parte, excusable, exemptible, expiable, eye-witness, factual, fair, fairish, final, firsthand, fit, fitted, forgivable, founded on, germane, good enough, goodish, grounded on, hearsay, hospitable, imbibitory, implicit, in point, incontrovertible, indicative, indisputable, ingestive, inoffensive, intromissive, intromittent, invitatory, inviting, involving, irrefutable, irresistible, just, justifiable, lawful, legal, legitimate, legitimized, licit, logical, material, moderate, not amiss, not bad, not half bad, not so bad, nuncupative, okay, open, overwhelming, pardonable, passable, permissible, pertaining, pertinent, plausible, presentable, presumptive, pretty good, probative, qualified, rational, reasonable, receivable, receptible, receptive, recipient, relevant, reliable, remissible, respectable, sanctionable, sane, satisfactory, sensible, significant, sound, sufficient, suggestive, suitable, sure, symptomatic, telling, tenable, tidy, to the point, to the purpose, tolerable, unexceptionable, unobjectionable, valid, venial, viable, vindicable, warrantable, weighty, welcoming, well-argued, well-founded, well-grounded, wholesome, with voice, with vote, workmanlike, worthy

ROGET THESAURUS

admissible

Agreement

N agreement, accord, accordance, unison, harmony, concord, concordance, concert, understanding, mutual understanding, conformity, conformance, uniformity, consonance, consentaneousness, consistency, congruity, congruence, keeping, congeniality, correspondence, parallelism, apposition, union, fitness, aptness, relevancy, pertinence, pertinencey, sortance, case in point, aptitude, coaptation, propriety, applicability, admissibility, commensurability, compatibility, cognation, adaption, adjustment, graduation, accommodation, reconciliation, reconcilement, assimilation, consent, concurrence, cooperation, right man in the right place, very thing, quite the thing, just the thing, agreeing, suiting, in accord, accordant, concordant, consonant, congruous, consentaneous, correspondent, congenial, coherent, becoming, harmonious reconcilable, conformable, in accordance with, in harmony with, in keeping with, in unison with at one with, of one mind, of a piece, consistent, compatible, proportionate, commensurate, on all fours, apt, apposite, pertinent, pat, to the point, to the purpose, happy, felicitous, germane, ad rem, in point, on point, directly on point, bearing upon, applicable, relevant, admissible, fit adapted, in loco, a propos, appropriate, seasonable, sortable, suitable, idoneous, deft, meet, at home, in one's proper element, a propos of, pertinently, rem acu tetigisti, if the shoe fits, wear it, the cap fits, auxilia humilia firma consensus facit, discers concordia.

Imperfection

N imperfection, imperfectness, deficiency, inadequacy, peccancy, immaturity, fault, defect, weak point, screw loose, flaw, gap, twist, taint, attainder, bar sinister, hole in one's coat, blemish, weakness, half blood, shortcoming, drawback, seamy side, mediocrity, no great shakes, no great catch, not much to boast of, one-horse shay, imperfect, not perfect, deficient, defective, faulty, unsound, tainted, out of order, out of tune, cracked, leaky, sprung, warped, lame, injured, peccant, frail, inadequate, crude, incomplete, found wanting, below par, short-handed, below its full strength, under its full strength, below its full complement, indifferent, middling, ordinary, mediocre, average, so-so, coucicouci, milk and water, tolerable, fair, passable, pretty well, pretty good, rather good, moderately good, good, good enough, well enough, adequate, decent, not bad, not amiss, inobjectionable, unobjectionable, admissible, bearable, only better than nothing, secondary, inferior, second-rate, second-best, one-horse, almost, to a limited extent, rather, pretty, moderately, passing, only, considering, all things considered, enough, surgit amari aliquid.