- having necessary power, skill, resources, or qualifications; qualified: able to lift a two-hundred-pound weight; able to write music; able to travel widely; able to vote.
- having unusual or superior intelligence, skill, etc.: an able leader.
- showing talent, skill, or knowledge: an able speech.
- legally empowered, qualified, or authorized.
- a code word formerly used in communications to represent the letter A.
- a suffix meaning “capable of, susceptible of, fit for, tending to, given to,” associated in meaning with the word able, occurring in loanwords from Latin (laudable); used in English as a highly productive suffix to form adjectives by addition to stems of any origin (teachable; photographable).
- having the necessary power, resources, skill, time, opportunity, etc, to do something
- capable; competent; talented
- qualified, competent, or authorized to do some specific act
- capable of, suitable for, or deserving of (being acted upon as indicated)
- inclined to; given to; able to; causing
