habile

adjective

Definition of habilenext
as in capable

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for habile
  1. capable
  2. adept
  3. skilled
  4. able
  5. skillful
  6. proficient
  7. competent
  8. masterly
Adjective
  • The Philippines' Institute of Volcanology and Seismology reported that the eruption triggered a pyroclastic density current—a scorching flow of ash, debris, and rocks capable of obliterating everything in its path.
    Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Acknowledge that women might be capable of and interested in thinking about politics.
    Chris Vognar, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2024
Definition of capable
Adjective
  • Headland, the Russian Doll co-creator and Star Wars: The Acolyte creator making her Broadway debut with Cult Of Love, is adept at keeping the dialogue crisp, funny and fast-moving, even if the pile-up of personalities, crises, conflicts and very hard feelings grows schematic and a bit predictable.
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Corral was already adept at getting to the basket and making plays with her midrange game as well.
    Paul Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 10 Dec. 2024
Definition of adept
Adjective
  • Mansouri added that Australia’s migration system emphasizes skilled migration and targets individuals with experience and qualifications in high-demand occupations.
    Celia Fernandez, CNBC, 11 Dec. 2024
  • That’s possible because North America also has the world’s best higher education and skilled labor pool.
    Chris Turlica, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
Definition of skilled
Adjective
  • Being able to really lean into the musicality of pop right now is so exciting.
    Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2024
  • For example, virtual try-on with shoes would be able to scale to your shoe size or someone could see how a bracelet would fall on their wrist.
    Rhonda Richford, WWD, 16 Dec. 2024
Definition of able
Adjective
  • There are dozens of really skillful clergy and educators in this country who are doing this all the time, and it can be done.
    Andrew Silow-Carroll, Sun Sentinel, 26 Nov. 2024
  • As Bears coach, Ditka was confident enough in his position to accept the involvement of the irascible, disrespectful but skillful defensive coordinator Buddy Ryan as necessary to the team’s Super Bowl success.
    Michael Peregrine, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
Definition of skillful
Adjective
  • The diffuser and flyaway tamers were both proficient in controlling strands gone awry and helped dry our hair evenly.
    Alyssa Brascia, People.com, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Any proficient software developer or AI specialist would right away be suspicious that the simplest of entries is causing lengthy latency.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
Definition of proficient
Adjective
  • Acevedo’s attorney Gabrielle Sansonetti then argued strenuously that Acevedo has been diagnosed with dementia and is not competent to testify reliably.
    Megan Crepeau, Chicago Tribune, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Still, the state supreme court this month ruled his attorneys had failed to prove that anything has changed since the inmate was deemed competent.
    Dakin Andone, CNN, 17 Dec. 2024
Definition of competent
Adjective
  • What sets Ives apart is his masterly fusion of disparate materials: tattered old tunes, newfangled dissonances, received classical forms, self-fashioned streams of consciousness.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
  • The authors of this concise and masterly introduction to the topic go some way toward filling that gap.
    Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 19 Dec. 2019
Definition of masterly
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