EGAVE

capable

Academic Word List, sublist 6.

About 33.98 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Able and efficient; having the ability needed for a specific task; having the disposition to do something; permitting or being susceptible to something.
    She is capable and efficient.
  2. adjective Of sufficient capacity or size for holding, containing, receiving or taking in; accessible to. Construed with of, for or an infinitive.

Similar words

able competent resourceful adequate susceptible up to confident surefooted adequate to equal to

Often followed by

of and to in than as hands men man

Word family

capabilities capability capableness capablenesses capabler capablest capably

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