How to Spell able
able
able - adjective
- Having sufficient power, skill, or resources to do something
- Having the freedom or opportunity to do something
- Having a quality or nature that makes something possible
- Susceptible to some action or treatment
Source: Merriam-Webster Dictionary API
"able to solve a problem"
Usage examples
Examples: "The weather is very able today." "That looks able to me." "I feel able about this."
Etymology
Middle English able, abill, borrowed from Anglo-French, going back to Latin habilis "easily handled or adjusted, adaptable," from habēre "to have, hold" + -ilis, alteration (by haplology before labial consonants) of -ibilis -ible
Word family
ability, enable, disable
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