Definition of Able

Able Fit; adapted; suitable. Having sufficient power, strength, force, skill, means, or resources of any kind to accomplish the object; possessed of qualifications rendering competent for some end; competent; qualified; capable; as, an able workman, soldier, seaman, a man able to work; a mind able to reason; a person able to be generous; able to endure pain; able to play on a piano. Specially: Having intellectual qualifications, or strong mental powers; showing ability or skill; talented; clever; powerful; as, the ablest man in the senate; an able speech. Legally qualified; possessed of legal competence; as, able to inherit or devise property. To make able; to enable; to strengthen. To vouch for. Related Definitions: Ability, Able, Accomplish, Adapted, An, Any, As, Be, Capable, Clever, Competence, Competent, Devise, Enable, End, Endure, Fit, For, Force, Generous, Having, In, Inherit, Intellectual, Kind, Legal, Legally, Make, Man, Mental, Mind, Object, Of, On, Or, Pain, Person, Piano, Play, Possessed, Power, Powerful, Property, Qualified, Reason, Rendering, Seaman, Senate, Showing, Skill, Soldier, Some, Specially, Speech, Strength, Strengthen, Strong, Sufficient, Suitable, Talented, The, To, Vouch, Work, Workman

Able Quotations To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear. Buddha You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. John Wooden We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls. Mother Teresa The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive. Albert Einstein My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. Albert Einstein Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe. Thomas Jefferson I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back. Maya Angelou My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. Winston Churchill As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves. Mohandas Gandhi It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head. Mohandas Gandhi

Able Translations able in Afrikaans is geskoolde able in Danish is dygtig able in Dutch is capabel, kundig, bekwaam able in Italian is adatto, capace, in grado, idoneo, abile able in Latin is polleo, validus, potens, ingeniosus able in Norwegian is dyktig able in Portuguese is capaz able in Spanish is apto, capaz, susceptible able in Swedish is duktig, skicklig, kunnig