capableadjective
uk/ˈkeɪ.pə.bəl/us/ˈkeɪ.pə.bəl/B2 able to do things effectively and skilfully, and to achieve results:
She's a very capable woman/worker/judge.
We need to get an assistant who's capable and efficient.
capable of sth/doing sth
B2 having the ability, power, or qualities to be able to do something:
Only the Democratic Party is capable of running the country.
A force ten wind is capable of blowing the roofs off houses.
When she's drunk she's capable of saying (= likely to say) awful, rude things.
I think your plan is capable of being (= could be) improved.
Opposite
incapable
More examples
- I think both sexes are equally capable of looking after children.
- These new bullets are capable of inflicting massive injuries.
- I have some lurking doubts about whether Simon is really capable of doing this job.
- We resent these insinuations that we are not capable of leading the company forward.
- She wouldn't hurt anyone - she's simply not capable of it.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Skilled, talented and able
- able
- ably
- accomplished
- adept
- adroit
- clutch
- gifted
- handy
- have a nice, good, etc. line in sth idiom
- have inner resources idiom
- have sth down to a fine art idiom
- intimate 1
- practised
- preen
- proficient
- proficiently
- qualified
- resource
- slick
- workmanlike
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capably
adverb uk/ˈkeɪ.pə.bli/us/ˈkeɪ.pə.bli/
She drove very capably.
Idiom(s)
in sb's capable hands