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  • nounpower to act, perform
  • nounnatural or acquired power in a

synonyms for ability

  • capability
  • capacity
  • competence
  • intelligence
  • qualification
  • skill
  • strength
  • talent
  • understanding
  • aptitude
  • competency
  • comprehension
  • dexterity
  • endowment
  • facility
  • faculty
  • might
  • potentiality
  • resourcefulness
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antonyms for ability

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  • ignorance
  • impotence
  • inability
  • incapability
  • incapacity
  • incompetence
  • ineptness
  • lack
  • weakness
  • clumsiness
  • inadequacy
  • inanity
  • limitation
  • paralysis
  • stupidity
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How to use ability in a sentence

The decision cannot be based on traditional parameters of willingness or ability to pay.
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In the mid-1970s, King’s supervisors told him to hire more women to fill quotas, though they were still skeptical of his ability to retain those women, assuming they’d either quit or be fired soon after starting work.
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The ability to on-board a senior employee remotely as well as the agency team working remotely has DeMuth warming up to remote hiring.
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One effective option is simply shutting off their worst-performing exchanges, particularly if they aren’t critical to the advertiser’s ability to scale.
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Creating a mentorship program is unlikely to inhibit anyone’s ability to be creative, she added.
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His ability to work with people was first honed in the military as a member of a Presidential Honor Guard.
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Vain also was the valour and ability he showed in the campaign against the Royalists in La Vende.
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In disease, the amount of solids depends mainly upon the activity of metabolism and the ability of the kidneys to excrete.
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The ability to sustain the tone for a long time will increase, and with it the power of the muscles exercised.
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The presence of a large gold fund was an assurance of the ability to return to specie payments after the close of the war.
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WORDS RELATED TO ABILITY

  • ability
  • achievement
  • act
  • art
  • attainment
  • bringing about
  • capability
  • carrying out
  • completion
  • conclusion
  • consummation
  • coup
  • deed
  • effecting
  • effort
  • execution
  • exploit
  • feat
  • finish
  • fulfillment
  • performance
  • production
  • proficiency
  • realization
  • skill
  • stroke
  • talent
  • triumph
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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serotinaladjective | [si-rot-n-l, ser-uh-tahyn-l ]SEE DEFINITION