CAPABLE


Meaning of CAPABLE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ keɪpəb(ə)l ]

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.

1.

If a person or thing is capable of doing something, they have the ability to do it.

He appeared hardly capable of conducting a coherent conversation...

The kitchen is capable of catering for several hundred people...

≠ incapable

ADJ : v-link ADJ of -ing / n

2.

Someone who is capable has the skill or qualities necessary to do a particular thing well, or is able to do most things well.

She’s a very capable speaker...

Her husband was such a fine, capable man.

= competent, able

ADJ

• ca‧pably

Happily it was all dealt with very capably by the police and security people.

ADV : ADV with v

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