Capable and Smart

Capable

Capable adjective - Having the required skills for an acceptable level of performance.

Smart and capable are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Smart" instead an adjective "Capable".

Nearby Words: capability, capably

Smart

Smart adjective - Being strikingly neat and trim in style or appearance.

Capable and smart are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Capable" instead an adjective "Smart".

Nearby Words: smarten, smartness, smartly

Both words in one sentence

  • Fan Fic / The Dilgar War The first is warmaster Len'char, a shrewd politician but nowhere as smart or a capable military commander as Jha'dur and Gar'shan, with his plans continuously backfiring.
  • Film / Monty Python and the Holy Grail He's not necessarily brilliant, but he's a capable and smart leader, a good sword fighter, confident, assertive, and the only one without a severe emotional problem of some sort.
  • Series / Star Trek: Voyager Icheb later takes this role as well, being a Teen Genius due his time in the Borg making him nearly as smart and capable as Seven.
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