capable
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capable/ˈkeɪpəbl/
▶adjective
- 1 (capable of doing something) having the ability or quality necessary to do something.
■ open to or admitting of something.
- 2 (of a person) competent.
– derivatives
capably adverb.
capably adverb.
– origin C16: from Fr., from late L. capabilis, from L. capere ‘take or hold’.
'capable' also found in these Oxford entries:
above
- abrasive
- accurate
- active
- age of reason
- aircraft
- amenable
- antisense
- apprehensible
- audio frequency
- base
- bat
- biodegradable
- booklouse
- boom box
- capacious
- capacitate
- carcinogen
- clunch
- colourable
- computer
- conceivable
- contractible
- contractile
- corrigible
- cryptobiont
- cutting
- cyanobacteria
- cyanogenic
- deictic
- demonstrable
- determinable
- dirigible
- divisible
- doli capax
- drip-dry
- duplex
- effete
- epidiascope
- erectile
- expansile
- extensile
- facultative
- fallible
- fast
- fecund
- fertile
- firebrick
- fireclay
