Word Finder - abler

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Easy to use.

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Suitable; competent.

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Liable to.

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Having the necessary powers or the needed resources to accomplish a task.

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Free from constraints preventing completion of task; permitted to; not prevented from.

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I’ll see you as soon as I’m able.

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Having the physical strength; robust; healthy.

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After the past week of forced marches, only half the men are fully able.

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Rich; well-to-do.

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He was born to an able family.

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Gifted with skill, intelligence, knowledge, or competence.

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The chairman was also an able sailor.

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Legally qualified or competent.

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He is able to practice law in six states.

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Capable of performing all the requisite duties; as an able seaman.

In all that followed Arabi was put forward as the leader of the discontented Egyptians; he was in reality little more than the mouthpiece and puppet of abler men such as Ali Rubi and Mahmud Sami.

Behind him were a group of men, much abler than.

But what may seem to a Napoleon the best course is not necessarily the one that suggests itself to a mediocre mind, and the greater the gulf which separates the two minds the greater the uncertainty which must prevail on the side of the abler commander.

Reinhard, who considered Arthur O'Connor "a far abler man," accurately read the character of Lord Edward Fitzgerald as that of a young man "incapable of falsehood or perfidy, frank, energetic, and likely to be a useful and devoted instrument; but with no experience or extraordinary talent, and entirely unfit to be chief of a great party or leader in a difficult enterprise."

Third Century.-The attack on Revelation was resumed by abler antagonists in this century.

About the middle of the same century grammar had a far abler exponent at Rome in the person of Aelius Donatus, the preceptor of St Jerome, as well as the author of a text-book that remained in use throughout the middle ages.

A third "Farmer's Letter" replied to Hamilton's View of the Controversy between Great Britain and her Colonies, in a broader and abler treatment than in the previous pamphlets.

Europe has perhaps never seen an abler series of princes than these fourteen lineal descendants of Dirk I.

Far abler and more resolute than against any of these men was Dumouriez, the new minister Austria.

In May 1766 the duke of Grafton, a far abler man than Rockingham, though neither so conciliatory in his manners nor so generally popular, seceded from the government, and in August 1766 he succeeded his former chief as first lord of the treasury and prime minister.

Charles Greville in his Memoirs says, "In the present cabinet are five or six first-rate men of equal, or nearly equal, pretensions, none of them likely to acknowledge the superiority or defer to the opinions of any other, and every one of these five or six considering himself abler and more important than their premier"; and Sir James Graham wrote, "It is a powerful team, but it will require good driving."

He pursued his policy of playing into the hands of the sovereign whilst keeping up the appearances of a Liberal, almost democratic, leader, skilful in debate, a trimmer par excellence, and abler in opposition than in office.

So prognosis became pessimistic, and the therapeutics of the abler men negative, until fresh hopes arose of stemming the tides of evil at their earliest flow.

Jackson, however, was recognized by the abler politicians as the coming man.

His son, Philip IV., was an abler man, and even gave indications of a wish to qualify himself to discharge his duties as king.

But as the duke of Vendome, a much abler general, replaced the captive, the incursion, daring though it was, proved anything but advantageous to the Austrians.

Danton, no doubt, was abler than most of the others, yet the timidity or temerity with which he allowed himself to be vanquished by Robespierre showed that even he was not a man of commanding quality.

It had, however, the merit of stimulating abler workers in the same field.