capable

[key-puh-buhl] / ˈkeɪ pə bəl /

ADJECTIVE

able to perform

Synonyms

STRONGEST

able accomplished adept adequate competent efficient experienced gifted good intelligent proficient qualified skillful suited talented

WEAK

adapted apt au fait clever dynamite fireball fitted green thumb has what it takes having know-how having the goods having the right stuff knowing the ropes knowing the score like a one-man band like a pistol masterly old hand old-timer on the ball proper there up up to it up to snuff up to speed veteran

Antonyms

STRONGEST

clumsy green ignorant inadequate incapable incompetent ineffective inefficient inept inexperienced powerless stupid unable unintelligent unqualified unskilled unsuitable untalented useless weak

WEAK

impotent unskillful

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It also has a small but capable air force with U.S.-supplied F-16 jet fighters that conducted airstrikes in Iraq alongside the U.S. in the fight against Islamic State.

From The Wall Street Journal

"Please, help us to stop the war; you are capable of it," Sisi told a press conference.

From Barron's

“The market is capable of absorbing risks related to exchange-rate fluctuations,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal

Not far from there, Japan has positioned its first “counterstrike” or long-range missile capable of hitting targets 620 miles away, up from 125 miles.

From The Wall Street Journal

New instruments are now capable of measuring the universe with unprecedented accuracy.

From Science Daily

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