ADMISSIBLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does admissible mean? 

• ADMISSIBLE (adjective)
  The adjective ADMISSIBLE has 1 sense:

1. deserving to be admitted

  Familiarity information: ADMISSIBLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADMISSIBLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Deserving to be admitted

Context example:

admissible evidence

Similar:

admittable; admittible (deserving to be allowed to enter)

allowable (deserving to be allowed or considered)

permissible (that may be accepted or conceded)

Attribute:

admissibility (acceptability by virtue of being admissible)

Antonym:

inadmissible (not deserving to be admitted)

Derivation:

admissibility (acceptability by virtue of being admissible)

 Context examples 

But the expression is hardly admissible, Mrs. Weston, is it?

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

“If it were admissible to contradict a lady,” said the gallant Mr. Elton—“I have perhaps given her a little more decision of character, have taught her to think on points which had not fallen in her way before.”

(Emma, by Jane Austen)