allowable means appropriate; acceptable. Lexicurio rates it Distinctive — a strength score of 69 out of 100.
allowable is pronounced /əˈlaʊ.əbəl/.
Etymology
From Middle English allowable, alowable, a borrowing from Old French alouable (Modern French allouable), from allouer, equivalent to allow + -able.
adj
- Appropriate; acceptable.
- Intellectually admissible; valid; probable.
- 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 […]”
- Praiseworthy.
noun
- A permitted amount or activity.