able
Meaning
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- Having the necessary powers or the needed resources to accomplish a task.
- Free from constraints preventing completion of task; permitted to; not prevented from.
- Gifted with skill, intelligence, knowledge, or competence.
- Legally qualified or competent.
- Capable of performing all the requisite duties; as an able seaman.
- (obsolete) Having the physical strength; robust; healthy.
- (obsolete) Easy to use.
- (obsolete) Suitable; competent.
- (obsolete) Liable to.
- (obsolete) Rich; well-to-do.
Synonyms
I can
ability
know how
fit for work
capable of
know how to
best effort
able to
be capable of
become strong
be possible
dining-table
have power
I can not
fitted for
having power
dinner-table
be enough
be full
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Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈeɪ.bəl/
Etymology
From Middle English able, from Old Northern French able, variant of Old French abile, habile, from Latin habilis (“easily managed, held, or handled; apt; skillful”), from habeō (“have, possess”) + -ibilis. Broadly ousted the native Old English magan.
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