Adaptable vs Capable - What's the difference?
adaptable | capable |
Capable of adapting or of being adapted.
* {{quote-book, author=Sabine Baring-Gould, title=, year=1901
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Able and efficient; having the ability needed for a specific task; having the disposition to do something; permitting or being susceptible to something.
(obsolete) Of sufficient capacity or size for holding, containing, receiving or taking in. Construed with of'', ''for or an infinitive.
* 1775 Samuel Johnson, A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland'' (''Works 10.479):
As adjectives the difference between adaptable and capable
is that adaptable is capable of adapting or of being adapted while capable is able and efficient; having the ability needed for a specific task; having the disposition to do something; permitting or being susceptible to something.adaptable
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Adjective
(en adjective)References
* ----capable
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Adjective
(en adjective)- She is capable and efficient.
- He does not need help; he is capable of eating on his own.
- As everyone knew, he was capable of violence when roused.
- That fact is not capable of proof.
- He has begun a road capable of a wheel-carriage.