allowable

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A permitted amount or activity.
形容词 adj.
  1. Appropriate; acceptable.
  2. Intellectually admissible; valid; probable.
  3. Able to be added or deducted in consideration of something.
  4. 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 […]
  5. Praiseworthy. obsolete

词形变化

more allowable comparative most allowable superlative allowables plural

词汇关系

衍生词
allowableness allowably nonallowable unallowable

词源

词源 1
From Middle English allowable, alowable, a borrowing from Old French alouable (Modern French allouable), from allouer, equivalent to allow + -able.
词源 2
From Middle English allowable, alowable, a borrowing from Old French alouable (Modern French allouable), from allouer, equivalent to allow + -able.
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