able
adjectiveHow many syllables in able?
There are 2 syllables in the word able.How to pronounce able:
Definition of able:
- able (adjective):
- capable or talented
- having sufficient power, skill, or resources to do something
- (usually followed by 'to') having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
Synonyms for able:
ability
accomplished
adept
adequate
adroit
capable
clever
competent
effective
efficient
equal
experienced
expert
fit
fitted
gifted
good
highly endowed
masterful
masterly
on the ball
powerful
practised
prepared
proficient
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Antonyms for able:
accident-prone
all fingers and thumbs
all thumbs
amateur
amateurish
apprentice
artless
average
awkward
bad
barbaric
barbarous
beginning
blundering
blunderous
botched
bumbling
bungling
bush-league
butterfingered
butterfingers
cack-handed
careless
caught napping
caught off guard
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Here are some other common 2-syllable words.
- against
- before
- yellow
- weather
- tiger
- downward
- greatest
- Carlos
- replace
- reply
- relate
- disgrace
- connect
- canoe
- smokey
- returned
- qipus
- litter
- layer
- laser
- fiction's
- concert
- allies
- until
- shortest
- rewards
- maker
- heartbreak
- flirty
- earthquake
- creeping
- cougar
- yeti
- mushroom
- medal
- gali
- cleaner
- breezy
- beneath
- truly
- taxi
- sunlight
- retreat
- naive
- genuine
- enlure
- either
- coffin
- blizzard
- Uzi
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The coda is the part of a syllable that follows the nucleus and can be a single consonant or a consonant cluster.
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