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passible

[ pas-uh-buhl ]

adjective

  1. capable of feeling, especially suffering; susceptible of sensation or emotion; impressionable.


passible

/ ˈæɪə /

adjective

  1. susceptible to emotion or suffering; able to feel
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˌ貹ˈٲ, noun
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • 貹ȴ·i·ٲ noun
  • ԴDz·貹s· adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of passible1

First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English word from Medieval Latin word passibilis. See passion, -ible
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of passible1

C14: from Medieval Latin passibilis, from Latin 貹ī to suffer; see passion
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“They transmitted to us a desire to help as much as passible,” said the Rev. Bárbaro Abel Marrero Castellanos, president of the Baptist Convention of Western Cuba.

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Ms. Sherman held out hope that it was passible to make “genuine progress through diplomacy.”

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The font of the letters is nearly bang on, the chips look great and the chicken very passible.

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Probably it is not passible to love two people in the same way, but there are different kinds of low.

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But Mr. Trump might not endorse all the group’s tactics: A video it released earlier in the race ridicules the old show “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous,” featuring a narrator with, at best, a passible Robin Leach impression.

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