allowable
/əˈlaʊ.əbəl/
allowable adjective: appropriate; acceptable.
Adjective
allowable (comparative more allowable, superlative most allowable)
- Appropriate; acceptable.
- Synonyms:
- apposite, proper, appropriate, apropos, apt, comely, commensurate, correct, decorous, expedient
- Intellectually admissible; valid; probable.
- Synonyms:
- likely, reasonable
- Able to be added or deducted in consideration of something.
- Permissible; tolerable; legitimate.
- And first, although there were more things in nature then words which did expresse them, yet even in these mute and silent discourses, to expresse complexed significations, they took a liberty to compound and piece together creatures of allowable formes unto mixtures inexistent […]1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC
- New HISA regulations, implemented last month, include strict rules about withdrawal times and allowable medication levels on race day.2023 June 10, Majlie de Puy Kamp, Curt Devine, Audrey Ash, Casey Tolan, Allison Gordon and Pamela Brown, “As horse racing’s best trainers rake in millions, records show they’ve violated rules aimed...
- Synonyms:
- acceptable, leveful, permissible, abideable, admissible, sufferable, supportable, tolerable, legit, legitimate
- Praiseworthy.
- Synonyms:
- applaudable, commendable, laudable, admirable, creditable, estimable, glorious, honorable, praiseworthy, respectable
Noun
allowable (plural allowables)
- A permitted amount or activity.
allowable meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
allowable in Tamil
- அனுமதிக்கத்தக்க, ஒத்துக்கொள்ளத்தக்க, பெருங்கேடற்ற, மோசமல்லாத, பொறுத்தமையக்கூடிய, மன்னிக்கக்கூடிய
allowable in Urdu
- allowable
- رخصتی ruxsatī
allowable in Bengali
- অনুমোদনযোগ্য
allowable in Malayalam
- permissible, admissible, permitted
- അനുവദിക്കത്തക്ക, അനുവദിക്കാവുന്ന, അനുവദനീയം, അനുവദിച്ചു കൊടുക്കാവുന്ന, അംഗീകരിച്ച് അനുവാദം നല്കാവുന്ന, അനുവാദം നൽകാവുന്ന
Examples of allowable in a sentence
- You needn't be rigid; some stretching of the phrase is absolutely allowable for the sake of meaning.
- Leave a fairly large maximum allowable buffer around the desired acrage.
- Allowable out-throws range from 0% to 10% , with most grades limiting out-throws to 1% or 2%.
Synonyms of allowable
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Forms of allowable
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more allowable |
| superlative | most allowable |
| Noun | |
| plural | allowables |
Origin of allowable
From Middle English allowable, alowable, a borrowing from Old French alouable (Modern French allouable), from allouer, equivalent to allow + -able.
Words formed from allowable
Questions about allowable
- What does allowable mean?
- Allowable means appropriate; acceptable.
- What is allowable in Tamil?
- Allowable in Tamil is அனுமதிக்கத்தக்க, ஒத்துக்கொள்ளத்தக்க, பெருங்கேடற்ற. See Allowable meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is allowable?
- Allowable can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce allowable?
- Allowable is pronounced /əˈlaʊ.əbəl/.
Words near allowable in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: allowable (page history and authors); allowable (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); رخصتی (Urdu) (page history and authors); allowable (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); allowable (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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