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able
1[ ey-buhl ]
adjective
- having necessary power, skill, resources, or qualifications; qualified:
able to lift a two-hundred-pound weight; able to write music; able to travel widely; able to vote.
Antonyms: incompetent
- having unusual or superior intelligence, skill, etc.:
an able leader.
- showing talent, skill, or knowledge:
an able speech.
Synonyms: apt
- legally empowered, qualified, or authorized.
noun
- Usually Able. a code word formerly used in communications to represent the letter A.
-able
2- a suffix meaning “capable of, susceptible of, fit for, tending to, given to,” associated in meaning with the word able, occurring in loanwords from Latin ( laudable ); used in English as a highly productive suffix to form adjectives by addition to stems of any origin ( teachable; photographable ).
-able
1suffix forming adjectives
- capable of, suitable for, or deserving of (being acted upon as indicated)
separable
enjoyable
pitiable
washable
readable
- inclined to; given to; able to; causing
comfortable
variable
reasonable
able
2/ ˈeɪbəl /
adjective
- postpositive having the necessary power, resources, skill, time, opportunity, etc, to do something
able to swim
- capable; competent; talented
an able teacher
- law qualified, competent, or authorized to do some specific act
Derived Forms
- -ably, suffix:forming_adverbs
- -ability, suffix:forming_nouns
Other Words From
- over·able adjective
- over·ab·ly adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of able1
Origin of able2
Word History and Origins
Origin of able1
Origin of able2
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
GIF-able when he goes jogging in sweatpants, if you know what I mean.
The total “reality” that Kim offered to her fans made her brand incredibly popular, but it also made her so entirely mock-able.
The smallest version is backpack-able, the largest can carry a small radar, and all have endurance unlimited by fuel.
“This strategy seemed do-able and brilliant,” Salem nonetheless wrote of the scuttled scheme in his self-review.
Able-bodied people rarely notice the barriers that riddle the world which keep the disabled from participating in society.
It is followed by forty-four pages of argument and illustration relating exclusively to the able-bodied wage-earner.
The wonder is that between sword and halter there was any able-bodied man left in Munster.
As in the Report itself, no definition is given in the Act of what was meant by "able-bodied persons."
We can find no explanation of, or reason for, the entire absence of any provision for independent women who were able-bodied.
The outdoor relief sanctioned for able-bodied men was strictly limited to persons who were not in employment for hire.
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