usually followed by `to' Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.

Have the skills and qualifications to do things well:
— Able teachers.
— A capable administrator.
— Children as young as 14 can be extremely capable and dependable.

synoniem: capable.

Roget 157: powerful, puissant; potential; capable, able; equal to, up to; cogent, valid; efficient, productive; effective, effectual, efficacious, adequate, competent; multipotent^†, plenipotent^†, omnipotent; almighty.    forcible etc. adj.. (energetic) 171; influential etc. 175; productive etc. 168.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 698: skillful, dexterous, adroit, expert, apt, handy, quick, deft, ready, gain; slick, smart etc. (active) 682; proficient, good at, up to, at home in, master of, a good hand at, au fait, thoroughbred, masterly, crack, accomplished; conversant etc. (knowing) 490.    experienced, practiced, skilled, hackneyed; up in, well up in; in practice, in proper cue; competent, efficient, qualified, capable, fitted, fit for, up to the mark, trained, initiated, prepared, primed, finished.    clever, cute, able, ingenious, felicitous, gifted, talented, endowed; inventive etc. 515; shrewd, sharp, on the ball etc. (intelligent) 498; cunning etc. 702; alive to, up to snuff, not to be caught with chaff; discreet.    neat-handed, fine-fingered, nimble-fingered, ambidextrous, sure-footed; cut out for, fitted for.    technical, artistic, scientific, daedalian^†, shipshape; workman-like, business-like, statesman-like.    ... meer laten zien

Having inherent physical or mental ability or capacity.

Having a strong healthy body:
— An able seaman.
— Every able-bodied young man served in the army.

synoniem: able-bodied.

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