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say it: pur-MIS-uh-buhl
permissible is an adjective meaning "that may be permitted especially as according to rule". It is pronounced /pɚˈmɪsəbəl/ — pur-MIS-uh-buhl. It carries 2 recorded senses.
that may be permitted especially as according to rule
“permissible behavior in school”
“a permissible tax deduction”
that may be accepted or conceded
“a kind of speculation that was permissible in cosmology but inadmissible in medicine”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for permissible come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.