Definition of capable

"capable" in the adjective sense

1. capable

usually followed by `of') having capacity or ability

"capable of winning"

"capable of hard work"

"capable of walking on two feet"

2. capable, open, subject

possibly accepting or permitting

"a passage capable of misinterpretation"

"open to interpretation"

"an issue open to question"

"the time is fixed by the director and players and therefore subject to much variation"

3. capable

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

"no one believed her capable of murder"

4. adequate to, capable, equal to, up to

having the requisite qualities for

"equal to the task"

"the work isn't up to the standard I require"

5. able, capable

have the skills and qualifications to do things well

"able teachers"

"a capable administrator"

"children as young as 14 can be extremely capable and dependable"

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Quotations for capable

But we all are men.
In our own natures frail; and capable
Of our flesh, few are angels. [ William Shakespeare ]

That grief is light which is capable of counsel. [ Proverb ]

Like virgin parchment, capable of any inscription. [ Massinger ]

Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good. [ Mrs. Stowe ]

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable. [ Joubert ]

All the good of which humanity is capable is comprised in obedience. [ J. Stuart Mill ]

A true delineation of the smallest man is capable of interesting the greatest man. [ Carlyle ]

Weak souls are capable of only weak sentiments; strong souls of powerful sentiments. [ Balzac ]

There is no study that is not capable of delighting us after a little application to it. [ Pope ]

Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting. [ Lowell ]

It is the wise alone who are capable of discerning that impartial justice is the truest mercy. [ Goldsmith ]

Health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of: a blessing that money cannot buy. [ Izaak Walton ]

To attain their ends most people are more capable of a great effort than of continued perseverance. [ La Bruyère ]

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing. [ Alexander Pope ]

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

We are not that we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for that we are capable of being. [ Thoreau ]

True bravery is shown by performing, without witnesses, what one might be capable of doing before all the world. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Wise kings have generally wise councillors, as he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one. [ Diogenes ]

A woman, when she has passed forty, becomes an illegible scrawl; only an old woman is capable of divining old women. [ Balzac ]

Why, at this rate, a fellow that has but a groat in his pocket may have a stomach capable of a ten-shilling ordinary. [ Congreve ]

We do not know of how much a man is capable if he has the will, and to what point he will raise himself if he feels free. [ J. von Muller ]

The images of men's wits and knowledge remain in books, exempted from the worry of time and capable of perpetual renovation. [ Bacon ]

There is no passion to be found in playing small, in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. [ Nelson Mandela ]

If the soul be happily disposed, every thing becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name. [ Goldsmith ]

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change. [ John Ruskin ]

I am persuaded that he who is capable of being a bitter enemy can never possess the necessary virtues that constitute a true friend. [ Fitzosborne ]

A single word is often a concentrated poem, a little grain of pure gold, capable of being beaten out into a broad extent of gold-leaf. [ Trench ]

A similitude of nature and manners in such a degree as we are capable of, must tie the holy knot, and rivet the friendship between us. [ F. Atterbury ]

Capable of all kinds of devotion, and of all kinds of treason, raised to the second power, woman is at once the delight and the terror of man. [ Amiel ]

There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of doing them to others. [ Sir W. Temple ]

The intellectual faculty is a goodly field, capable of great improvement; and it is the worst husbandry in the world to sow it with trifles and impertinences. [ Sir M. Hale ]

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete, devotes his heart entirely to money. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]

It is a fact capable of amiable interpretation that ladies are not the worst disposed towards a new acquaintance of their own sex, because she has points of inferiority. [ George Eliot ]

Many a man who has never been able to manage his own fortune, nor his wife, nor his children, has the stupidity to imagine himself capable of managing the affairs of a nation.

Urge them while their souls are capable of this ambition, lest zeal, now melted by the windy breath of soft petitions, pity and remorse, cool and congeal again to what it was. [ William Shakespeare ]

God has sometimes converted wickedness into madness; and it is to the credit of human reason that men who are not in some degree mad are never capable of being in the highest degree wicked. [ Burke ]

Mankind are creatures of books, as well as of other circumstances; and such they eternally remain, - proofs, that the race is a noble and believing race, and capable of whatever books can stimulate. [ Leigh Hunt ]

It is hard to mesmerize ourselves, to whip our own top; but through sympathy we are capable of energy and endurance. Concert fires people to a certain fury of performance they can rarely reach alone. [ Emerson ]

He who excels in his art so as to carry it to the utmost height of perfection of which it is capable may be said in some measure to go beyond it: his transcendent productions admit of no appellations. [ La Bruyere ]

It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature, that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion. [ Emerson ]

Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while. [ Emerson ]

Are we capable of so intimate and cordial a coalition of friendship as, that one man may pour out his bosom - his very inmost soul, with unreserved confidence to another, without hazard of losing part of that respect which man deserves from man. [ A. Burn ]

There are few souls who are so vigorously organized as to be able to maintain themselves in the calm of a strong resolve: all honest consciences are capable of the generosity of a day, but almost all succumb the next morning under the effort of the sacrifice. [ George Sand ]

I have so great a contempt and detestation for meanness, that I could sooner make a friend of one who had committed murder, than of a person who could be capable, in any instance, of the former vice. Under meanness, I comprehend dishonesty; under dishonesty, ingratitude; under ingratitude, irreligion; and under this latter, every species of vice and immorality in human nature. [ Sterne ]

Association is the delight of the heart not less than of poetry. Alison observes that an autumn sunset, with its crimson clouds, glimmering trunks of trees, and wavering tints upon the grass, seems scarcely capable of embellishment. But if in this calm and beautiful glow the chime of a distant bell steal over the fields, the bosom heaves with the sensation that Dante so tenderly describes. [ Willmott ]

capable in Scrabble®

The word capable is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 13

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters capable:

CAPABLE
(102 = 52 + 50)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

capable

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word capable

CAPABLE
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CAPABLE
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CAPABLE
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CAPABLE
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CAPABLE
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CAPABLE
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CAPABLE
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CAPABLE
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CAPABLE
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CAPABLE
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CAPABLE
(64 = 14 + 50)

The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In capable

CAPABLE
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CAPABLE
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CAPABLE
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CAPABLE
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CAPABLE
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CAPABLE
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CAPABLE
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CAPABLE
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CAPABLE
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CAPABLE
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CAPABLE
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CAPABLE
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CAPABLE
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CAPABLE
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CAPABLE
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CAPABLE
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CAPABLE
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CAPABLE
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CAPABLE
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CAPABLE
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CAPABLE
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capable in Words With Friends™

The word capable is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 17

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters capable:

CAPABLE
(134 = 99 + 35)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

capable

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word capable

CAPABLE
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CAPABLE
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CAPABLE
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In capable

CAPABLE
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CAPABLE
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CAPABLE
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CAPABLE
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CAPABLE
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Words within the letters of capable

2 letter words in capable (7 words)

3 letter words in capable (12 words)

4 letter words in capable (11 words)

5 letter words in capable (4 words)

6 letter words in capable (1 word)

7 letter words in capable (1 word)

capable + 1 blank (3 words)

Words containing the sequence capable

Words that start with capable (2 words)

Words with capable in them (4 words)

Word Growth involving capable

Shorter words in capable

ab able

cap

pa

Longer words containing capable

capableness incapableness

capableness unescapableness

escapable inescapable

escapable unescapable unescapableness

incapable incapableness

incapable incapables

overcapable

ultracapable

undercapable