willing and able

1. 1.

   not reluctant

   Similarwilling

Questions about willing and able

What does willing and able mean?

willing and able means "not reluctant".

Is willing and able a common word?

willing and able is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.