Word Meanings - CAPABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Possessing ability, qualification, or susceptibility; having capacity; of sufficient size or strength; as, a room capable of holding a large number; a castle capable of resisting a long assault. Concious of jou and capable of pain. Prior. 2.

Additional info about word: CAPABLE

1. Possessing ability, qualification, or susceptibility; having capacity; of sufficient size or strength; as, a room capable of holding a large number; a castle capable of resisting a long assault. Concious of jou and capable of pain. Prior. 2. Possessing adequate power; qualified; able; fully competent; as, a capable instructor; a capable judge; a mind capable of nice investigations. More capable to discourse of battles than to give them. Motley. 3. Possessing legal power or capacity; as, a man capable of making a contract, or a will. 4. Capacious; large; comprehensive. Shak. Note: Capable is usually followed by of, sometimes by an infinitive. Syn. -- Able; competent; qualified; fitted; efficient; effective; skillful.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CAPABLE)

• Able
• Strong
• powerful
• clever
• skillful
• talented
• capable
• fitted
• efficient
• effective
• learned
• gifted
• masterly
• telling
• nervous
• vigorous
• Adequate
• Equal
• sufficient
• fit
• satisfactory
• full
• competent
• able
• Eligible
• Capable
• suitable
• worthy
• desirable
• preferable
• choice
• prime
• Qualify
• Fit
• prepare
• adapt
• capacitate
• limit
• restrict
• enable
• render capable
• Susceptible
• impressible
• tender
• sensitive

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CAPABLE)

• Withhold
• withdraw
• retain
• appropriate

Related words: (words related to CAPABLE)

• TENDER
  A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like. 3. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water. (more info) 1. One who tends; one who takes
• SKILLFUL
  1. Discerning; reasonable; judicious; cunning. "Of skillful judgment." Chaucer. 2. Possessed of, or displaying, skill; knowing and ready; expert; well-versed; able in management; as, a skillful mechanic; -- often followed by at, in, or of; as,
• SENSITIVE
  1. Having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; as, a sensitive soul. 2. Having quick and acute sensibility, either to the action of external objects, or to impressions upon the
• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• TALENT
  tolerare, tollere, to lift up, sustain, endure. See Thole, v. t., 1. Among the ancient Greeks, a weight and a denomination of money equal to 60 minæ or 6,000 drachmæ. The Attic talent, as a weight, was about 57 lbs. avoirdupois; as a denomination
• LIMITARIAN
  Tending to limit.
• LIMITIVE
  Involving a limit; as, a limitive law, one designed to limit existing powers.
• ADAPTABLE
  Capable of being adapted.
• PRIMEVALLY
  In a primeval manner; in or from the earliest times; originally. Darwin.
• POWERFUL
  Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any
• LIMITABLE
  Capable of being limited.
• CHOICELY
  1. With care in choosing; with nice regard to preference. "A band of men collected choicely, from each county some." Shak. 2. In a preferable or excellent manner; excellently; eminently. "Choicely good." Walton.
• TENDERLY
  In a tender manner; with tenderness; mildly; gently; softly; in a manner not to injure or give pain; with pity or affection; kindly. Chaucer.
• TELLER
  1. One who tells, relates, or communicates; an informer, narrator, or describer. 2. One of four officers of the English Exchequer, formerly appointed to receive moneys due to the king and to pay moneys payable by the king. Cowell. 3. An officer
• RESTRICT
  Restricted.
• EQUALIZER
  One who, or that which, equalizes anything.
• GIFTEDNESS
  The state of being gifted. Echard.
• TENDERNESS
  The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective). Syn. -- Benignity; humanity; sensibility; benevolence; kindness; pity; clemency; mildness; mercy.
• RETAINMENT
  The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
• SATISFACTORY
  1. Giving or producing satisfaction; yielding content; especially, relieving the mind from doubt or uncertainty, and enabling it to rest with confidence; sufficient; as, a satisfactory account or explanation. 2. Making amends, indemnification,
• RECAPACITATE
  To qualify again; to confer capacity on again. Atterbury.
• UNCAPABLE
  Incapable. "Uncapable of conviction." Locke.
• PATELLULA
  A cuplike sucker on the feet of certain insects.
• INSUFFICIENTLY
  In an insufficient manner or degree; unadequately.
• INCAPABLE
  Unqualified or disqualified, in a legal sense; as, a man under thirty-five years of age is incapable of holding the office of president of the United States; a person convicted on impeachment is thereby made incapable of holding an office of profit
• UNLIMITED
  1. Not limited; having no bounds; boundless; as, an unlimited expanse of ocean. 2. Undefined; indefinite; not bounded by proper exceptions; as, unlimited terms. "Nothing doth more prevail than unlimited generalities." Hooker. 3. Unconfined; not
• INEFFICIENT
  1. Not efficient; not producing the effect intended or desired; inefficacious; as, inefficient means or measures. 2. Incapable of, or indisposed to, effective action; habitually slack or remiss; effecting little or nothing; as, inefficient workmen;
• SCUTELLUM
  A rounded apothecium having an elevated rim formed of the proper thallus, the fructification of certain lichens. The third of the four pieces forming the upper part of a thoracic segment of an insect. It follows the scutum, and is followed by the
• UNEQUALABLE
  Not capable of being equaled or paralleled. Boyle.
• RETELL
  To tell again.
• HALF-LEARNED
  Imperfectly learned.