Wordiyoabil
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About This Root
From Latin habilis (handy, manageable), from habere (to hold). Forms one of English's most common suffixes — -able/-ible — turning verbs into adjectives of possibility (capable, probable, unbearable). The noun form -ability (stability, probability) is equally productive. Words range from everyday (able, enable, unable) to formal (culpable, indispensability).
Associated Words
ability
The quality or state of being able; capacity to do or of doing something; having the necessary power
able
To make ready; Having the necessary powers or the needed resources to accomplish a task
capability
The power or ability to do or achieve something
culpable
Deserving blame for wrongdoing; guilty
disabled
Having a physical or mental disability; made inoperational
enable
To give the ability or means to do something; to make possible
impermeability
The quality of not allowing liquids or gases to pass through
indispensability
The quality of being absolutely essential or necessary
knowledgeable
Having a great deal of knowledge about a subject
malleability
The quality of being easily shaped or influenced
probability
The likelihood of something happening; a mathematical measure of chance
stability
The quality of being stable and resistant to change
unable
Lacking the ability or means to do something
unavoidable
Impossible to avoid; certain to happen
unbearable
Too unpleasant or painful to endure
unbelievable
Too extraordinary or improbable to believe; astonishing