Word Meanings - CAPABILITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The quality of being capable; capacity; capableness; esp. intellectual power or ability. A capability to take a thousand views of a subject. H. Taylor. 2. Capacity of being used or improved.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CAPABILITY)

• Efficacy
• Efficiency
• competency
• virtue
• agency
• capability
• usefulness
• energy
• productiveness
• effectiveness
• Power
• Faculty
• capacity
• potentiality
• ability
• strength
• force
• might
• susceptibility
• influence
• dominion
• sway
• command
• government
• authority
• rule
• jurisdiction
• Qualification
• Capacity
• fitness
• condition
• accomplishment
• requirement
• limitation
• modification
• Room
• Space
• ground
• compass
• extent
• locality
• opportunity
• margin
• admission

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CAPABILITY)

• Supplicate
• entreat
• persuade
• beg
• petition
• suggest
• represent
• Expand
• disband
• unfold
• amplify
• display
• dismiss
• liberate
• discard
• fail
• bungle
• botch
• misconceive
• mismanage
• misconstrue

Related words: (words related to CAPABILITY)

• FORCE
  To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak.
• DISMISSIVE
  Giving dismission.
• SUPPLICATE
  supplicate; of uncertain origin, cf. supplex, supplicis, humbly begging or entreating; perhaps fr. sub under + a word akin to placare to reconcile, appease , or fr. sub under + plicare to fold, whence the idea of bending the knees . Cf. 1. To
• COMPASSIONATELY
  In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
• MARGINALIA
  Marginal notes.
• SUGGESTER
  One who suggests. Beau. & Fl.
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• MIGHTILY
  1. In a mighty manner; with might; with great earnestness; vigorously; powerfully. Whereunto I also labor, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily. Col. i. 29. 2. To a great degree; very much. Practical jokes amused
• SUGGEST
  1. To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects. Some ideas . . . are suggested to the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection. Locke. 2. To propose with difference or modesty;
• MODIFICATION
  The act of modifying, or the state of being modified; a modified form or condition; state as modified; a change; as, the modification of an opinion, or of a machine; the various modifications of light. Bentley.
• PERSUADER
  One who, or that which, persuades or influences. "Powerful persuaders." Milton.
• QUALIFICATION
  1. The act of qualifying, or the condition of being qualified. 2. That which qualifies; any natural endowment, or any acquirement, which fits a person for a place, office, or employment, or which enables him to sustian any character with success;
• GROUNDEN
  p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
• DISMISSAL
  Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.
• MISMANAGER
  One who manages ill.
• PERSUADED
  Prevailed upon; influenced by argument or entreaty; convinced. -- Per*suad"ed*ly, adv. -- Per*suad"ed*ness, n.
• ABILITY
  The quality or state of being able; power to perform, whether physical, moral, intellectual, conventional, or legal; capacity; skill or competence in doing; sufficiency of strength, skill, resources, etc.; -- in the plural, faculty, talent. Then
• STRENGTHFUL
  Abounding in strength; full of strength; strong. -- Strength"ful*ness, n. Florence my friend, in court my faction Not meanly strengthful. Marston.
• FITNESS
  The state or quality of being fit; as, the fitness of measures or laws; a person's fitness for office.
• POWERFUL
  Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any
• ADORABILITY
  Adorableness.
• AMENABILITY
  The quality of being amenable; amenableness. Coleridge.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• INTRACTABILITY
  The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd.
• SUITABILITY
  The quality or state of being suitable; suitableness.
• EQUABILITY
  The quality or condition of being equable; evenness or uniformity; as, equability of temperature; the equability of the mind. For the celestial bodies, the equability and constancy of their motions argue them ordained by wisdom. Ray.
• COMMENSURABILITY
  The quality of being commersurable. Sir T. Browne.
• DEFLAGRABILITY
  The state or quality of being deflagrable. The ready deflagrability . . . of saltpeter. Boyle.
• IMMEABILITY
  Want of power to pass, or to permit passage; impassableness. Immeability of the juices. Arbuthnot.
• INEVITABILITY
  Impossibility to be avoided or shunned; inevitableness. Shelford.
• EFFUMABILITY
  The capability of flying off in fumes or vapor. Boyle.
• DISRESPECTABILITY
  Want of respectability. Thackeray.