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able
adjective as in capable of performing
adjective as in able to perform well; having a proven capacity
Strong matches
accomplished, adroit, effective, experienced, practiced, qualified, skillful, talented
Weak matches
clever, facile, know one's onions, know the ropes, masterful, masterly, savvy, smart, trained, up to snuff
Example Sentences
GIF-able when he goes jogging in sweatpants, if you know what I mean.
The total “reality” that Kim offered to her fans made her brand incredibly popular, but it also made her so entirely mock-able.
The smallest version is backpack-able, the largest can carry a small radar, and all have endurance unlimited by fuel.
“This strategy seemed do-able and brilliant,” Salem nonetheless wrote of the scuttled scheme in his self-review.
Able-bodied people rarely notice the barriers that riddle the world which keep the disabled from participating in society.
It is followed by forty-four pages of argument and illustration relating exclusively to the able-bodied wage-earner.
The wonder is that between sword and halter there was any able-bodied man left in Munster.
As in the Report itself, no definition is given in the Act of what was meant by "able-bodied persons."
We can find no explanation of, or reason for, the entire absence of any provision for independent women who were able-bodied.
The outdoor relief sanctioned for able-bodied men was strictly limited to persons who were not in employment for hire.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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