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ablest
adjective as in capable of performing; having an innate capacity
adjective as in able to perform well; having a proven capacity
Weak matches
- accomplished
- adroit
- agile
- artful
- au fait
- brilliant
- clever
- deft
- dexterous
- effectual
- equal to
- experienced
- expert
- facile
- gifted
- ingenious
- know backwards and forwards
- know one's onions
- know the ropes
- learned
- masterful
- masterly
- powerful
- practiced
- proficient
- qualified
- savvy
- sharp
- skillful
- talented
- there
- trained
- up to it
- up to snuff
- up to speed
- with it
Example Sentences
Speaking to BBC Radio 4's World at One programme, he described Ms Sturgeon as being "one of the ablest communicators in politics".
In September 1948, a State Department report portrayed Ho as "the strongest and perhaps the ablest figure in Indochina," and said that "any suggested solution which excludes him is an expedient of uncertain outcome."
Why banish the ablest interpreters of this glittering, informative exhibition to their phones?
Halberstam’s subject was “why men who were said to be the ablest to serve in government in this century had been the architects” of the Vietnam tragedy.
Powell would write to Hammond when he completed his clerkship: “I think you are one of the ablest lawyers with whom I have ever worked. Your capacity of penetrating legal analysis is exceptional.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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