Usually means: Able to achieve or perform.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word capable:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. capable: Merriam-Webster
  2. capable: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. capable: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. capable: Collins English Dictionary
  5. capable: Vocabulary.com
  6. Capable, capable: Wordnik
  7. -capable, capable: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. capable: Wiktionary
  9. capable: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. capable: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. capable: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Capable, capable: Dictionary.com
  13. capable: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. capable: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Capable: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Capable: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. capable: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. capable: Rhymezone
  19. capable, capable: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. capable: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. capable: FreeDictionary.org
  22. capable: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. capable: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. capable: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. capable: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  2. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. capable: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. capable: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. capable: Idioms

(Note: See capableness as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Able and efficient; having the ability needed for a specific task; having the disposition to do something; permitting or being susceptible to something.
adjective:  (obsolete) Of sufficient capacity or size for holding, containing, receiving or taking in; accessible to. Construed with of, for or an infinitive.

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