adjective. Having capacity or ability; efficient and able.

adjective. Having the ability required for a specific task or accomplishment; qualified.

adjective. Having the inclination or disposition.

adjective. Permitting an action to be performed.

Able to hold or contain; sufficiently capacious (for): followed by of.

Capacious; extensive; comprehensive: as, “a capable and wide revenge,”

Able to receive; open to influences; impressible; receptive; susceptible; admitting: usually followed by of: as, capable of pain and grief; capable of long duration; capable of being colored or altered: sometimes used absolutely.

Able to be received.

Fitted or deserving to receive: as, “capable of mercy,”

Sufficiently able (to do something): as, a man capable of judging.

Having legal power or capacity: as, a bastard is not capable of inheriting an estate.

Possessing a good degree of intelligence or ability; qualified; able; competent: as, a capable judge; a capable instructor.

Synonyms Qualified, fitted, adapted, efficient, clever, skilful, gifted, accomplished.

adjective. Possessing ability, qualification, or susceptibility; having capacity; of sufficient size or strength.

adjective. Possessing adequate power; qualified; able; fully competent.

adjective. Possessing legal power or capacity.

adjective. Capacious; large; comprehensive.

adjective. Able and efficient; having the ability needed for a specific task; having the disposition to do something; permitting or being susceptible to something.

adjective. Of sufficient capacity or size for holding, containing, receiving or taking in. Construed with of, for or an infinitive.

adjective. (usually followed by `of') having capacity or ability

adjective. (followed by `of') having the temperament or inclination for

adjective. possibly accepting or permitting

adjective. having the requisite qualities for

adjective. have the skills and qualifications to do things well

"But a nature capable of so much distress, must of necessity be _capable_ of a corresponding amount of pleasure; and in her case this was manifest in the fact that sleep and the quiet of her own room restored her wonderfully."

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