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capacitous

capacitous adjective: having the legal capacity to do something.

Adjective

capacitous (comparative more capacitous, superlative most capacitous)

  1. Having the legal capacity to do something.
    • Advance directives require the person making them not only to be capacitous but also to have autonomy – that is, to be making their decision(s) freely and without coercion or undue influence from others.2007, Jacqueline Atkinson, Advance Directives in Mental Health: Theory, Practice and Ethics

Forms of capacitous

comparativemore capacitous
superlativemost capacitous

Questions about capacitous

What does capacitous mean?
Capacitous means having the legal capacity to do something.
What part of speech is capacitous?
Capacitous is an adjective.

Words near capacitous in the dictionary

  1. capacitivity
  2. capacitor
  3. capacitor plague
  4. capacitorless
  5. capacitors
  6. capacitous
  7. capacitron
  8. capacitrons
  9. capacity
  10. capacity crowd
  11. capacity crowds

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