Usually means: Most capable, competent, or skilled.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word ablest:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. ablest: Merriam-Webster
  2. ablest: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ablest: Collins English Dictionary
  4. ablest: Vocabulary.com
  5. ablest: Wordnik
  6. ablest: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. ablest: Wiktionary
  8. Ablest, ablest: Dictionary.com
  9. ablest: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. ablest: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. ablest: FreeDictionary.org
  12. ablest: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ablest: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. ablest: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ablest: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ablest: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Able)

adjective:  Having the necessary powers or the needed resources to accomplish a task.
adjective:  Free from constraints preventing completion of task; permitted to; not prevented from.
adjective:  Gifted with skill, intelligence, knowledge, or competence.
adjective:  (law) Legally qualified or competent.
adjective:  (nautical) Capable of performing all the requisite duties; as an able seaman.
adjective:  (obsolete, dialectal) Having the physical strength; robust; healthy.
adjective:  (obsolete) Easy to use.
adjective:  (obsolete) Suitable; competent.
adjective:  (obsolete, dialectal) Liable to.
adjective:  (obsolete) Rich; well-to-do.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To make ready.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To make capable; to enable.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To dress.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To give power to; to reinforce; to confirm.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To vouch for; to guarantee.
noun:  (military) The letter "A" in Navy Phonetic Alphabet.
noun:  (World War II era, joint US/RAF) radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter A.
noun:  A surname.
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