Definition of "capable" []

• Having capacity or ability; efficient and able: a capable administrator. (adjective)
• Having the ability required for a specific task or accomplishment; qualified: capable of winning. (adjective)
• Having the inclination or disposition: capable of violence. (adjective)
• Permitting an action to be performed: an error capable of remedy; a camera capable of being used underwater. (adjective)

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• "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."
• "_Africaine_, reformed, refined, beautified in her descendants, transformed into the creole negress, commenced to exert a fascination irresistible, capable of winning anything (_capable de tout obtenir_). ""
• "It is clear then that since "Lover of so and so" is a term capable of several meanings, we do not always denote the same quality by the term"