Definition for Ability:

• possession of the qualities ( especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done; " danger heightened his powers of discrimination"

Synonyms for Ability:

• n.

  •
  • comprehension,
  • sense,
  • intelligence,
  • ingenuity,
  • bent,
  • head,
  • potency,
  • prowess,
  • gift,
  • understanding.
  •
  • background,
  • artifice,
  • savvy,
  • inexperience,
  • artistry,
  • sufficiency,
  • quickness,
  • finesse,
  • tact,
  • finish,
  • touch,
  • eligibility,
  • knowledge.
  •
  • command,
  • art.
  •ability (noun)
  • power.
  •bent (noun)
  • leaning.
  •character (noun)
  • caliber.
  •cognition (noun)
  • power.
  •command (noun)
  • expertism.
  •efficacy (noun)
  • efficacy,
  • capableness.
  •fitness (noun)
  • eligibility.
  •freedom (noun)
  • independency.
  •importance (noun)
  • stature.
  •intellect (noun)
  • Intellectuality.
  •knowledge (noun)
  • scholarship,
  • expertise.
  •maturity (noun)
  • ripeness.
  •natural or acquired power in a (noun)
  • expertise,
  • expertness,
  • knack,
  • the right stuff,
  • bent,
  • particular activity adeptness,
  • savvy,
  • the goods,
  • know-how,
  • command,
  • ingenuity,
  • mind for,
  • flair,
  • skillfulness,
  • mastery,
  • cleverness,
  • genius,
  • proficiency,
  • deftness,
  • craft,
  • adroitness,
  • handiness,
  • gift,
  • finesse.
  •power to act, perform (noun)
  • endowment,
  • qualification,
  • faculty,
  • dexterity,
  • facility,
  • capacity,
  • strength,
  • skill,
  • talent,
  • intelligence,
  • capability,
  • aptitude,
  • comprehension,
  • competency,
  • might,
  • understanding,
  • resourcefulness,
  • potentiality,
  • competence.
  •self-determination (noun)
  • self-determination.
  •self-government (noun)
  • self-government.
  •self-reliance (noun)
  • self-reliance.
  •sense (noun)
  • sense.
  •skill (noun)
  • artfulness,
  • talent,
  • expertise,
  • technique,
  • facility,
  • mastery,
  • know-how,
  • genius,
  • adeptness,
  • dexterity,
  • artifice,
  • adroitness,
  • skill,
  • aptitude,
  • proficiency,
  • sportsmanship,
  • craft,
  • capability,
  • competence,
  • cunning,
  • flair,
  • acuity,
  • knack,
  • touch,
  • experience,
  • deftness.

• v.

  •sense (verb)
  • instinct.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • blockheaded,
  • loopy,
  • meatball,
  • Percipiency,
  • nerd,
  • nonprofessional,
  • Unpolitic,
  • kicker,
  • workmanship,
  • Inexpertness,
  • innovative,
  • incompetency,
  • showmanship,
  • expertness,
  • vet,
  • strong point,
  • Dexterousness,
  • bumbling,
  • cleverness,
  • style,
  • softheaded,
  • loony,
  • virtuosity,
  • lummox,
  • responsibility,
  • inventiveness,
  • aptness,
  • grasp,
  • innovatory,
  • ill-chosen,
  • Methodic,
  • equipment,
  • qualifications,
  • Percipience,
  • bent,
  • polish,
  • blunderer,
  • ding-dong,
  • professionalism,
  • Smatterer,
  • DUMBO,
  • wizardry,
  • bumble,
  • ingeniousness,
  • undemonstrated,
  • bemused,
  • foozler,
  • schmo,
  • tomfool,
  • dummkopf,
  • Rawness,
  • undiplomatic,
  • screwup,
  • tactfulness,
  • doltish,
  • accomplishment,
  • Sageness,
  • up-and-comer,
  • intellect,
  • klutzy,
  • accuracy,
  • chump,
  • untactful,
  • long suit,
  • multifaceted,
  • armory,
  • distrait,
  • Agileness,
  • uninitiate,
  • creativeness,
  • savvy,
  • resourcefulness,
  • dimwitted,
  • maturity,
  • dippy,
  • perceptiveness,
  • unproved,
  • birdbrained,
  • Clear-sightedness,
  • fluidity,
  • dimwit,
  • creativity,
  • softhead,
  • jerky.
  •
  • nincompoop,
  • unequal,
  • inapt,
  • unable,
  • unintelligent,
  • skillful,
  • fitness,
  • ingenious,
  • scope,
  • endowment,
  • old-timer,
  • astuteness,
  • impotent,
  • practiced,
  • diplomacy,
  • shrewdness,
  • fatuous,
  • zaniness,
  • ace,
  • It,
  • Mooncalf,
  • dunce,
  • frivolous,
  • blockhead,
  • gift,
  • accomplished,
  • unversed,
  • artful,
  • all-around,
  • adept,
  • lumpish,
  • greenness,
  • goose,
  • canny,
  • dexterous,
  • lug,
  • mindless,
  • half-witted,
  • Feeble-minded,
  • cockeyed,
  • tactful,
  • doctrinaire,
  • fluency,
  • forte,
  • Weak-minded,
  • scheming,
  • buoyancy,
  • keen,
  • thickheaded,
  • versed,
  • politic,
  • yokel,
  • incompetent,
  • resilience,
  • comer,
  • nimbleness,
  • unskillful,
  • capable,
  • ease,
  • prowess,
  • savoir-faire,
  • creative,
  • foolish,
  • perspicacity,
  • silly,
  • diplomatic,
  • lout,
  • eligible,
  • washed-up,
  • inexperience,
  • wizard,
  • spry,
  • shrewd,
  • heavy-handed,
  • wily,
  • infelicitous,
  • dolt,
  • awkward,
  • imbecile,
  • bungler,
  • agility,
  • acumen,
  • clever,
  • seasoned,
  • wherewithal,
  • brisk,
  • empty-headed,
  • idealist,
  • deft,
  • tact,
  • moron,
  • versatile,
  • discreet,
  • perspicacious.
  •
  • competent,
  • inefficient,
  • command,
  • inappropriate,
  • disable,
  • gander,
  • understanding,
  • knowing,
  • gumption,
  • preoccupied,
  • trick,
  • invention,
  • resource,
  • intelligent,
  • mind,
  • compass,
  • keenness,
  • unsuitable,
  • wisdom,
  • abstracted,
  • mandate,
  • originality,
  • zany,
  • knowledgeable,
  • unfit,
  • stunt,
  • quickness,
  • foolishness,
  • specialty,
  • inadequate,
  • impolitic,
  • helpless.
  •
  • clod,
  • insanity,
  • utopian,
  • frothy,
  • bag,
  • crazy,
  • able,
  • discrimination,
  • unearthly,
  • orderly,
  • neat,
  • quick,
  • ineffectual,
  • unhappy,
  • wit.
  •
  • dumb,
  • stumble,
  • rustic,
  • mad,
  • feat,
  • various,
  • lump,
  • brain.
  •
  • dizzy,
  • sense,
  • nose,
  • nonsense,
  • eye,
  • unfortunate,
  • judgment,
  • art.
  •
  • bright,
  • dull,
  • backward,
  • experienced,
  • slow,
  • delicate.
  •
  • visionary.
  •
  • weak.
  •
  • head,
  • good.
  •
  • soft.
  •
  • thing.
  •ability
  • hand,
  • intelligence,
  • sleight.
  •adroitness
  • finesse.
  •capacity
  • potentiality.
  •carelessness
  • easiness.
  •compass
  • reach.
  •inventiveness
  • ingenuity.
  •talent
  • propensity.
  •workmanship
  • artistry.
  •Other relevant words:
  • command,
  • decrepit,
  • sleight,
  • completely,
  • creative,
  • equipment,
  • It,
  • good,
  • bridge player,
  • touch,
  • trade,
  • crazy,
  • Agileness,
  • softheaded,
  • fittingness,
  • untactful,
  • area,
  • Intellectuality,
  • exactly,
  • handiwork,
  • emphatically,
  • lightly,
  • blunderer,
  • tire,
  • skillfulness,
  • feel,
  • subject,
  • bias,
  • sternly,
  • mind,
  • credit side,
  • agility,
  • canny,
  • intellectual powers,
  • artisanship,
  • dunce,
  • eligibility,
  • baron,
  • zany,
  • cowardly,
  • neat,
  • bumbling,
  • consciousness,
  • consecrate,
  • bungler,
  • determinedly,
  • mild,
  • wizardry,
  • Brains,
  • Technic,
  • discrimination,
  • loopy,
  • tycoon,
  • head,
  • mind for,
  • style,
  • decorum,
  • culture,
  • caliber,
  • various,
  • orderly,
  • moron,
  • maturity,
  • craftiness,
  • freedom,
  • dippy,
  • distinctly,
  • efficiency,
  • wisdom,
  • disable,
  • originality,
  • inefficient,
  • pizzazz,
  • ace,
  • Habilitation,
  • possibility,
  • world power,
  • turn,
  • lend,
  • lout,
  • felicity,
  • seamanship,
  • decisively,
  • instinct,
  • savvy,
  • awkward,
  • Qualifiedness,
  • infelicitous,
  • feeble,
  • provide,
  • predilection,
  • strong point,
  • entirely,
  • perspicacity,
  • goose,
  • nonsense,
  • goods,
  • resolutely,
  • only if,
  • thickheaded,
  • quickness,
  • promise,
  • effortlessness,
  • creativity,
  • birdbrained,
  • get,
  • reach,
  • wherewith,
  • means,
  • silly,
  • unwaveringly,
  • resilience,
  • expertism,
  • bumble,
  • heavy-handed,
  • independency,
  • field,
  • judgement,
  • effeminate,
  • dash,
  • suitability,
  • activity,
  • resourcefulness,
  • fluency,
  • business leader,
  • dimwit,
  • calibrate,
  • big businessman,
  • wily,
  • achievement,
  • magnate,
  • professionalism,
  • dowry,
  • coordination,
  • unequal,
  • doltish,
  • buoyancy,
  • rationality,
  • Unpolitic,
  • unable,
  • grace,
  • soft,
  • swiftness,
  • active ingredient,
  • Skilfulness,
  • bore,
  • suitableness,
  • ways,
  • slow,
  • intellect,
  • recourses,
  • preoccupied,
  • ingenuity,
  • unversed,
  • skillful,
  • strength,
  • strategy,
  • hand,
  • tactfulness,
  • way,
  • observation,
  • concentration,
  • badly,
  • apt,
  • index,
  • intellection,
  • ductile,
  • lenient,
  • apparently,
  • mitt,
  • mandate,
  • gravely,
  • spend,
  • innovative,
  • smartness,
  • innovatory,
  • donate,
  • intuition,
  • humble,
  • subtlety,
  • astuteness,
  • acquirement,
  • reason,
  • faculty,
  • deplete,
  • clod,
  • shrewd,
  • horsemanship,
  • sphere,
  • assertively,
  • resource,
  • baby,
  • Clear-sightedness,
  • strongly,
  • airmanship,
  • tempering,
  • stuff,
  • productivity,
  • forte,
  • unskillful,
  • proclivity,
  • artful,
  • Weak-minded,
  • Smatterer,
  • perception,
  • keen,
  • can,
  • bless,
  • supply,
  • craftsmanship,
  • independence,
  • fully,
  • zaniness,
  • capacity,
  • capableness,
  • grip,
  • preparedness,
  • superpower,
  • weak,
  • hang,
  • brisk,
  • right stuff,
  • invest,
  • adequate,
  • hired hand,
  • paw,
  • powerfulness,
  • mad,
  • stunt,
  • stock,
  • unproved,
  • senses,
  • calibre,
  • knowing,
  • dolt,
  • perspicacious,
  • adequacy,
  • ease,
  • decidedly,
  • direction,
  • give,
  • Fittedness,
  • nose,
  • power,
  • claim to fame,
  • disposition,
  • seriously,
  • backward,
  • Bravura,
  • Inexpertness,
  • absolutely,
  • merit,
  • screwup,
  • positively,
  • incompetency,
  • seasoning,
  • acumen,
  • artistry,
  • mastership,
  • leadership,
  • unsuitable,
  • nonprofessional,
  • Rawness,
  • the goods,
  • all-around,
  • solidly,
  • gifted person,
  • competency,
  • versed,
  • kicker,
  • deft,
  • accomplishment,
  • timing,
  • art,
  • grasp,
  • inexperience,
  • right,
  • intelligence,
  • nerd,
  • comprehension,
  • association of ideas,
  • tomfool,
  • thing,
  • sharpness,
  • old-timer,
  • competent,
  • loony,
  • rustic,
  • accomplished,
  • property,
  • speed,
  • ingeniousness,
  • bright,
  • potentiality,
  • just now,
  • pliable,
  • mightiness,
  • ineffectual,
  • armory,
  • deal,
  • eloquence,
  • partiality,
  • effect,
  • power of attorney,
  • potential,
  • trick,
  • dull,
  • natural endowment,
  • clever,
  • inclination,
  • devices,
  • sleight of hand,
  • discreet,
  • handiness,
  • earnestly,
  • klutzy,
  • device,
  • accuracy,
  • blockhead,
  • knowledge,
  • afford,
  • chump,
  • adept,
  • metier,
  • conception,
  • dummkopf,
  • condition,
  • be able to,
  • prejudice,
  • bemused,
  • dumb,
  • confidently,
  • stature,
  • imbecile,
  • impolitic,
  • helping hand,
  • Ableness,
  • imaginativeness,
  • unearthly,
  • finish,
  • efficacy,
  • furnish,
  • diplomacy,
  • Abilities,
  • wherewithal,
  • uninitiate,
  • jerky,
  • dogmatically,
  • washed-up,
  • visionary,
  • prowess,
  • blockheaded,
  • shrewdness,
  • lump,
  • helpless,
  • brilliance,
  • certain,
  • sufficiency,
  • particular activity adeptness,
  • fitness,
  • showmanship,
  • stumble,
  • savoir-faire,
  • readiness,
  • parts,
  • imagination,
  • talented person,
  • benign,
  • suitable,
  • self-determination,
  • Sageness,
  • steadily,
  • funds,
  • up-and-comer,
  • docile,
  • handwriting,
  • multifaceted,
  • foozler,
  • undemonstrated,
  • spry,
  • method,
  • propensity,
  • cockeyed,
  • smoothness,
  • comer,
  • ways and means,
  • practiced,
  • easiness,
  • great power,
  • mother wit,
  • tact,
  • Resources,
  • long suit,
  • able,
  • susceptibility,
  • trim,
  • fatuous,
  • energy,
  • dizzy,
  • scope,
  • frothy,
  • have got,
  • really,
  • eligible,
  • perceptiveness,
  • clothe,
  • effectiveness,
  • workmanship,
  • cleverness,
  • dimwitted,
  • qualifications,
  • marksmanship,
  • ingenious,
  • makings,
  • Faculties,
  • frivolous,
  • apposite,
  • endow,
  • performance,
  • Methodic,
  • capital,
  • aptness,
  • unfortunate,
  • elastic,
  • control,
  • office,
  • vet,
  • the right stuff,
  • bump,
  • gumption,
  • knowhow,
  • cup of tea,
  • keenness,
  • responsibility,
  • quick,
  • surely,
  • scholarship,
  • recourse,
  • lug,
  • seasoned,
  • self-reliance,
  • scheming,
  • sense,
  • understanding,
  • wits,
  • bent,
  • firmly,
  • Masterliness,
  • excellence,
  • Talents,
  • inadequate,
  • acuteness,
  • do one's best,
  • mogul,
  • masterfulness,
  • major power,
  • indeed,
  • bury,
  • background,
  • severely,
  • finesse,
  • unhappy,
  • endowment,
  • ripeness,
  • easy,
  • impotent,
  • force,
  • certainly,
  • expertness,
  • experienced,
  • specialization,
  • Feeble-minded,
  • polish,
  • contribute,
  • resort,
  • idealist,
  • feat,
  • truly,
  • politic,
  • eye,
  • address,
  • puissance,
  • knowledgeable,
  • wit,
  • dexterous,
  • invention,
  • DUMBO,
  • qualification,
  • assuredly,
  • bag,
  • compass,
  • vigorously,
  • easily,
  • versatile,
  • abstracted,
  • lumpish,
  • undiplomatic,
  • creativeness,
  • Dexterousness,
  • meatball,
  • ill-chosen,
  • panache,
  • validity,
  • gander,
  • resorts,
  • unfit,
  • inappropriate,
  • potency,
  • half-witted,
  • wizard,
  • vantage ground,
  • inapt,
  • schmo,
  • incompetent,
  • clearly,
  • vigor,
  • alacrity,
  • top executive,
  • exponent,
  • Dextrousness,
  • foolishness,
  • dower,
  • virtuosity,
  • lummox,
  • foolish,
  • artifice,
  • Mooncalf,
  • script,
  • powers,
  • energetic,
  • judgment,
  • manus,
  • specialty,
  • ding-dong,
  • self-government,
  • softhead,
  • Percipience,
  • hired man,
  • flexible,
  • asset,
  • brain,
  • inventiveness,
  • doctrinaire,
  • consume,
  • peremptorily,
  • gift,
  • cogency,
  • predisposition,
  • diplomatic,
  • nimbleness,
  • leaning,
  • fluidity,
  • facultative,
  • yokel,
  • offer,
  • influence,
  • Percipiency,
  • definitely,
  • vacate,
  • endurance,
  • mindless,
  • speciality,
  • quality,
  • equity capital,
  • nincompoop,
  • utopian,
  • sportsmanship,
  • might,
  • greenness,
  • insanity,
  • evidently,
  • correct,
  • tactful,
  • king,
  • active,
  • celerity,
  • capable,
  • tendency,
  • impart,
  • empty-headed,
  • delicate,
  • unintelligent,
  • distrait,
  • catalogue,
  • secret,
  • Canniness,
  • genuinely,
  • meek,
  • Enablement,
  • intelligent,
  • physical strength.

Antonyms for Ability:

• n.

  • attribute
    inability.
  • cognition
    inability.
  • natural or acquired power in a
    want, ineptitude.
  • power to act, perform
    impotence, incapacity, stupidity, inanity, ignorance, inability, clumsiness, inadequacy, limitation, ineptness, incompetence, lack, incapability, paralysis, weakness.
  • Other antonyms:
    stupidity, imbecility, impairment, ineffectualness, paralysis, Incapacitation, disablement, dulness, ineptness, feebleness, awkwardness, debilitation, weakness, inaptitude, uselessness, ineffectuality, inefficaciousness, helplessness, inefficiency, defectiveness, ineffectiveness, inadequateness, inefficacy, incapableness, deficiency, disability, maladroitness.

Homophones for Ability:

• ablaut, affiliate, afield, applaud, appellate, affiliated, applied, aplite, applet, abvolt, applewood, appalled, affability, ablated, ablate, afloat.

Hypernym for Ability:

• n.

  • attribute
    magical power, sensitivity, totipotency, sensitiveness, magical ability, adaptability, physical ability, form, Midas Touch, capableness, competency, competence, capability, interoperability, contractility, Immunocompetence, penetration, totipotence.
  • cognition
    aptitude, know-how, accomplishment, attainment, leadership, Bilingualism, superior skill, acquisition, skill, mental ability, creative thinking, hand, science, creativity, acquirement, module, capacity, mental faculty, originality, intelligence, faculty, creativeness.

Hyponym for Ability:

• n.

  • attribute
    quality.
  • cognition
    cognition, knowledge, noesis.