Feasible vs Passable - What's the difference?
feasible | passable |
That can be done in practice.
That may be passed]] or [[traverse, traversed.
Tolerable; satisfactory; adequate.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Able to "pass", or be accepted as a member of a race, sex or other group to which society would not otherwise regard one as belonging.
* 2014 , Paul Stryker, Confessions of a Sex Offender (page 33)
As adjectives the difference between feasible and passable
is that feasible is that can be done in practice while passable is that may be passed]] or [[traverse|traversed.feasible
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- His plan to rid Trafalgar Square of pigeons by bringing in peregrine falcons to eat them was dismissed as not feasible .
Synonyms
* achievable * doable * possible * practicable * workableAntonyms
* infeasible, unfeasibleAnagrams
*passable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)The machine of a new soul, passage=The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure.}}
- The idea of something, or someone, being unusual and sexual is intoxicating. I concluded that if I ever met a very passable transsexual and we were attracted to one another, I'd go bisexual and pursue the relationship.
