admissible.

Meeting the relevant rules or conditions for acceptance or consideration.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• admissible evidence
• admissible argument

On the page

The document was admissible, but its reliability remained open to challenge.

The examiner explained which assumptions were admissible within the proposed model.

Usage notes

Primary category: analysis / argumentation / evidence. Forms: Usually categorical; more or most admissible only where relative acceptability is naturally compared. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: evidence, argumentation, evaluation, qualification. Disciplines: reasoning, research, essay writing. Commonness: moderately common.