capable
Meaning of capable
- having the ability, fitness, or quality necessary to do or achieve a specified thing.
I'm quite capable of taking care of myself
the aircraft is capable of flying 5,000 miles non-stop
- able to achieve efficiently whatever one has to do; competent.
she looked enthusiastic and capable
a highly capable man
mid 16th century (in the sense ‘able to take in’, physically or mentally): from French, from late Latin capabilis, from Latin capere ‘take or hold’.
Information about capable
- It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of capable
ca-pa-ble
- It consists of 3 syllables and 7 chars.
- capable is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
capable synonyms
Meaning open:
Meaning able:
Meaning (of a person) efficient and capable:
Meaning (of a system or machine) achieving maximum productivity with minimum wasted effort or expense:
Meaning successful in producing a desired or intended result:
Meaning competent or skilled in doing or using something:
Meaning highly trained or skilled in a particular activity:
Meaning very skilled or proficient at something:
Meaning having a tendency to do something:
Meaning expert, typically as the result of much experience:
Meaning having gained knowledge or skill in a particular field over time:
Meaning officially recognized as being trained to perform a particular job; certified:
Meaning having or showing skill:
Meaning based on or proceeding from the ability to do something well:
Meaning showing great skill; very accomplished:
Meaning having a natural aptitude or skill for something:
Meaning having exceptional talent or natural ability:
Meaning quick to understand, learn, and devise or apply ideas; intelligent:
Meaning having or showing intelligence, especially of a high level:
Meaning skilful:
Meaning very able or competent in a particular area:
Meaning deft; skilful:
capable antonyms
Meaning not having or showing the necessary skills to do something successfully:
Meaning having or showing no skill; clumsy:
Translation of capable
- German: befähigt, fähig, kapabel, imstande, kompetent
- French: capable, apte
- Italian: grado, competente, capace
- Portuguese: capaz
- Spanish: capaz, apto, apta, competente
Anagrams of capable
Words that rhyme with capable
able, absorbable, adsorbable, ascribable, bable, bioabsorbable, bioresorbable, bombable, bribable, circumscribable, climbable, clubable, clubbable, crumbable, curbable, describable, equiprobable, grabbable, imperturbable, imprescribable, improbable, indescribable, indisturbable, inscribable, mobable, mobbable, nonabsorbable, nonclimbable, nondescribable, nonperturbable, nonprobable, perturbable, plumbable, prescribable, probable, proscribable, resorbable, scribable, scrubbable, snubbable, sorbable, subscribable, superimprobable, transcribable, tubbable, unabsorbable, unascribable, unbribable, uncircumscribable, unclimbable