most capable

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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most capable

Dots are powered by GPT-6 Astra, which OpenAI calls its most capable and aligned model, trained to refuse “harmful requests.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

Studying them can require many hours of observing time on some of the world's most capable telescopes.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

Notably absent from Mr. Huang’s letter were OpenAI and Anthropic—the labs most capable of releasing frontier-class American open models, but also among those lobbying for restrictions on Chinese ones.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

With nearly 900 beds and 2,100 doctors, Cedars-Sinai is one of the biggest and most capable hospitals in the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026

The two biggest and most capable were already in the kitchen helping their mother.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes