ablest
USAY-bluhst/ˈeɪ.bləst/UKAY-blist/ˈeɪ.blɪst/
- 1Superlative of able.
The committee chose the ablest candidate to lead the negotiations.
He was widely regarded as the ablest lawyer in the city.
Note
The short superlative of a two-syllable adjective: able drops its final e and takes -est. It belongs to the skill-and-competence side of able and ranks people against one another. Margaret McMillan's Labour and Childhood (1907) speaks of "one of the latest and ablest specialists." The phrase most able expresses the same degree in two words, and both forms are standard.
ablest is a form of able
able, adjective: Having the power, skill, means, or freedom to do something; used mainly in be able to. Full entry
- Spelling
- able → ablest: add -st
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