Allowable
[ə'laʊəbl]
Definition
(adj.) deductible according to the tax laws .
(adj.) deserving to be allowed or considered .
Editor: Michel--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Praiseworthy; laudable.
(a.) Proper to be, or capable of being, allowed; permissible; admissible; not forbidden; not unlawful or improper; as, a certain degree of freedom is allowable among friends.
Checker: Trent
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Permissible, admissible, lawful, proper, justifiable, warrantable.
Typist: Nelda
Examples
- Every shade of light and dark, of truth, and of fiction which is the veil of truth, is allowable in a work of philosophical imagination. Plato. The Republic.
- I kiss you because we are cousins, and, being cousins, one--two--three kisses are allowable. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- A fair profit is, of course, allowable. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- It can be allowable only as the thought of the moment. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Thus self-satisfaction and vanity may not only be allowable, but requisite in a character. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
Typist: Nelda