Adjective
- 1. permissible (vs. impermissible), allowable, tolerable
- usage: that may be permitted especially as according to rule; "permissible behavior in school"; "a permissible tax deduction"
- 2. permissible, admissible (vs. inadmissible)
- usage: that may be accepted or conceded; "a kind of speculation that was permissible in cosmology but inadmissible in medicine"
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