Synonyms for capable
ˈkeɪ pə bəlca·pa·ble

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1. capableadjective

   Antonyms:
   incapable

2. capableadjective

   Antonyms:
   incapable

3. capableadjective

   Antonyms:
   incapable

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1. capable

   Adequate, commensurate, and sufficient signify equal to some given occasion or work; as, a sum sufficient to meet expenses; an adequate remedy for the disease. Commensurate is the more precise and learned word, signifying that which exactly measures the matter in question. Adapted, fit, suitable, and qualified refer to the qualities which match or suit the occasion. A clergyman may have strength adequate to the work of a porter; but that would not be a fit or suitable occupation for him. Work is satisfactory if it satisfies those for whom it is done, though it may be very poor work judged by some higher standard. Qualified refers to acquired abilities; competent to both natural and acquired; a qualified teacher may be no longer competent, by reason of ill health. Able and capable suggest general ability and reserved power, able being the higher word of the two. An able man will do something well in any position. A capable man will come up to any ordinary demand. We say an able orator, a capable accountant.

   Synonyms:
   able, adapted, adequate, commensurate, competent, equal, fit, fitted, fitting, qualified, satisfactory, sufficient, suitable

   Antonyms:
   disqualified, inadequate, incompetent, inferior, insufficient, poor, unequal, unfit, unqualified, unsatisfactory, unsuitable, useless, worthless

   Preposition:
   Adequate to the demand; for the purpose.

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1. capableadjective

   (usually followed by `of') having capacity or ability

   "capable of winning"; "capable of hard work"; "capable of walking on two feet"

   Synonyms:
   equal to(p), up to(p), open, adequate to(p), subject, able

   Antonyms:
   unable(p), inadequate, incompetent, unequal, insusceptible, incapable, unsusceptible

2. capable, open, subjectadjective

   possibly accepting or permitting

   "a passage capable of misinterpretation"; "open to interpretation"; "an issue open to question"; "the time is fixed by the director and players and therefore subject to much variation"

   Synonyms:
   overt, unfastened, receptive, heart-to-heart, undefendable, open(a), undefended, subject, exposed, dependent, clear, open, candid, undecided, up to(p), loose, assailable, unresolved, equal to(p), undetermined, able, adequate to(p), opened

   Antonyms:
   unsusceptible, incapable, insusceptible, unequal, unable(p), inadequate, incompetent

3. capableadjective

   (followed by `of') having the temperament or inclination for

   "no one believed her capable of murder"

   Synonyms:
   equal to(p), up to(p), open, adequate to(p), subject, able

   Antonyms:
   incompetent, unsusceptible, incapable, insusceptible, unable(p), inadequate, unequal

4. adequate to(p), capable, equal to(p), up to(p)adjective

   having the requisite qualities for

   "equal to the task"; "the work isn't up to the standard I require"

   Antonyms:
   incompetent, unable(p), insusceptible, unsusceptible, inadequate, unequal, incapable

5. able, capableadjective

   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"

   Synonyms:
   equal to(p), open, adequate to(p), subject, able-bodied, able, up to(p)

   Antonyms:
   unable(p), incapable, insusceptible, unsusceptible, unequal, inadequate, incompetent

Editors ContributionRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. able

   Submitted by Soulwriter on June 1, 2021  

2. efficacy

   able to do

   Submitted by rinat on August 15, 2019  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. capableadjective

   Synonyms:
   qualified, suited, fitted, adapted, susceptible

2. capableadjective

   Synonyms:
   able, competent, intelligent, clever, skilful, efficient, ingenious, sagacious, gifted, accomplished

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1. capableadjective

   Synonyms:
   able, qualified, susceptible, competent, efficient, proficient

   Antonyms:
   incapable

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1. List of paraphrases for "capable":

   able, competent, ability, likely, capacity, incapable, unable

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1. Hamad Hasan:

   It has become clear that the pandemic challenge has reached a stage that is seriously threatening Lebanese lives as hospitals are not capable of providing beds.

2. Helen Hayes:

   The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

3. Andrew Gimson:

   I think he feels intellectually more capable. Here is a man with a knowledge of Latin and Greek who actually reads books for pleasure.

4. Tom Jennings:

   In the several months before they kidnapped Patty Hearst, two of their members were arrested and eventually convicted of murdering an Oakland school official, that set the table in the sense that these people were very capable of committing violence. Patty Hearst kidnap letter. ( Courtesy of Smithsonian Channel) And so Patty Hearst comes along and it was a very opportunistic way for them to put themselves on the front page of newspapers every day … They were certainly good at playing the media to their benefit back then.

5. Asaib Ahl al-Haq:

   Their involvement is potentially harmful to the operation, we led the fight to liberate al-Dawr, to liberate al-Alam, and we are capable of liberating Tikrit without the help of American forces.