Enable vs. Inable — What's the Difference?

To supply with the means, knowledge, or opportunity (to do something); make able

Unable, not able.

To make feasible or possible

To enable.

To give legal power, capacity, or sanction to

See Enable.

To make operational; activate

To behave in a manner that facilitates or supports (another's abusive, addictive, or self-destructive behavior).

To make somebody able (to do, or to be, something); to give sufficient ability or power to do or to be; to give strength or ability to.

To affirm; to make firm and strong.

To qualify or approve for some role or position; to render sanction or authorization to; to confirm suitability for.

To yield the opportunity or provide the possibility for something; to provide with means, opportunities, and the like.

To imply or tacitly confer excuse for an action or a behavior.

(electronics) To put a circuit element into action by supplying a suitable input pulse.

To activate, to make operational (especially of a function of an electronic or mechanical device).

To give strength or ability to; to make firm and strong.

To make able (to do, or to be, something); to confer sufficient power upon; to furnish with means, opportunities, and the like; to render competent for; to empower; to endow.

Render capable or able for some task;