ability

The word “ability” has 4 syllables: a-bil-i-ty

It's pronounced as /əˈbɪləti/


What is synonym and antonym for ability?

In the thesaurus, “ability” has 68 synonyms and 35 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for ability along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for ability

  • address
  • adequacy
  • adroitness
  • aptitude
  • aptness
  • bent
  • capability
  • capableness
  • capacity
  • cleverness
  • command
  • competence
  • competency
  • comprehension
  • craft
  • deftness
  • dexterity
  • effectiveness
  • effectualness
  • endowment
  • equipment
  • expertise
  • expertness
  • facility
  • faculty
  • finesse
  • fitness
  • flair
  • form
  • genius
  • gift
  • gray matter
  • hand
  • handiness
  • influence
  • ingenuity
  • instinct
  • intelligence
  • ken
  • knack
  • know-how
  • mastery
  • means
  • might
  • mind for
  • particular activity adeptness
  • potency
  • potentiality
  • proficiency
  • prowess
  • puissance
  • qualification
  • reason
  • resourcefulness
  • resources
  • savvy
  • skill
  • skillfulness
  • staying power
  • strength
  • stuff
  • talent
  • the goods
  • the right stuff
  • understanding
  • usefulness
  • what it takes
  • wherewithal

Antonyms for ability

  • clumsiness
  • debilitation
  • defectiveness
  • deficiency
  • disability
  • disablement
  • helplessness
  • ignorance
  • impairment
  • impotence
  • inability
  • inadequacy
  • inadequateness
  • inanity
  • incapability
  • incapableness
  • incapacitation
  • incapacity
  • incompetence
  • incompetency
  • ineffectiveness
  • ineffectuality
  • ineffectualness
  • inefficaciousness
  • inefficacy
  • ineptitude
  • ineptness
  • lack
  • limitation
  • paralysis
  • powerlessness
  • stupidity
  • uselessness
  • want
  • weakness

Meanings of ability

  • noun
    1. Suitableness.
    2. The quality or state of being able; capacity to do or of doing something; having the necessary power.
    3. The legal wherewithal to act.
    4. Physical power.
    5. Financial ability.
    6. A unique power of the mind; a faculty.
    7. A skill or competence in doing; mental power; talent; aptitude.

Example Sentences

  • She demonstrated exceptional ability in problem-solving during the project.
  • The teacher praised the student for his remarkable writing ability.
  • Effective leadership requires the ability to inspire and motivate others.
  • Adaptability is a valuable ability in today's rapidly changing world.
  • The team's success is attributed to the collective ability to collaborate and innovate.

On this page you'll find 103 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to ability, such as: address, adequacy, adroitness, aptitude, aptness, bent, capability.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

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abidance

  • accession
  • acquiescence
  • adherence
  • attendance
  • attention
  • ceaselessness
  • compliance
  • conformance
  • conformity
  • continuance
  • continuation
  • continuity
  • continuousness
  • deference
  • drawing out
  • durability
  • duration
  • elongation
  • endurance
  • enduringness
  • extension
  • heed
  • honor
  • keeping
  • lengthening
  • notice
  • obedience
  • observance
  • observation
  • permanence
  • persistence
  • prolongation
  • prolonging
  • regard
  • respect
  • stretching
  • submission
  • subsistence
  • surrender
  • survival
  • upholding

abilities

  • addresses
  • adequacies
  • aptitudes
  • bravery
  • capabilities
  • capacities
  • competences
  • competencies
  • courage
  • credentials
  • dependability
  • dexterities
  • drive
  • endowments
  • equipments
  • essential qualities
  • experience
  • facilities
  • faculties
  • forms
  • gifts
  • gray matters
  • guts
  • hands
  • influences
  • instincts
  • intelligences
  • kens
  • knacks
  • knowledge
  • means
  • mights
  • potencies
  • power
  • prowesses
  • puissances
  • qualifications
  • reasons
  • resources
  • self-confidence
  • skills
  • staying powers
  • stuff
  • talent
  • talents
  • the goods
  • the makings
  • the stuff
  • understandings
  • what it takes
  • wherewithals

abortiveness

  • barrenness
  • bootlessness
  • collapse
  • crash
  • cropper
  • defeat
  • deficiency
  • disappointment
  • emptiness
  • failure
  • fizzle
  • fruitlessness
  • futility
  • hopelessness
  • inadequacy
  • inadequateness
  • inaneness
  • ineffectiveness
  • ineffectuality
  • ineffectualness
  • inefficaciousness
  • inefficacy
  • insufficiency
  • letdown
  • meaninglessness
  • nonachievement
  • nonsuccess
  • otioseness
  • pointlessness
  • senselessness
  • setback
  • unavailingness
  • unprofitability
  • unprofitableness
  • uselessness
  • vanity

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