enabled

[en-ey-buhld]

adjective

1. Digital Technology.,  equipped for a specified extended, peripheral, or premium use (used in combination): web-enabled cell phones.

   a Wi-Fi enabled thermostat;

   web-enabled cell phones.

2. noting or relating to a person living with a physical or mental disability who uses adaptive tools or assistive technology to engage in everyday activities and share public and private spaces with others.

   Enabled employees are granted reasonable accommodations under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

3. nondisabled.

Sensitive Note

See able-bodied.

Word History and Origins

Origin of enabled¹

enable ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

What are the factors that have enabled him to live for so long, as the fan magazines would have it, beyond the grave?

From Los Angeles Times

It has meant dignity and the ability to pay school fees, keep food on the table and enabled her to look forward to a better future.

From BBC

Spending more time on Long Island enabled extra preparation on the ground.

From BBC

Thousands of soldiers are still missing in action in the area, and the discovery of items from individual regiments enabled them to narrow down who the individuals might be.

From BBC

Seeing them as they truly were enabled the scientists to reclassify them as a separate – more advanced group of human.

From BBC

Related Words

• empower 
• facilitate 
• implement 
• permit 
• set up