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incapable
[in-key-puh-buhl]
adjective
not capable.
Antonyms:not having the necessary ability, qualification, or strength to perform some specified act or function.
As an administrator, he is simply incapable.
Synonyms: ,without ordinary capability; incompetent.
noun
a thoroughly incompetent person, especially one of defective mentality.
incapable
/ ɪˈɪəə /
adjective
not capable (of); lacking the ability (to)
powerless or helpless, as through injury or intoxication
not susceptible (to); not admitting (of)
a problem incapable of solution
Other 51Թ Forms
- incapability noun
- incapableness noun
- incapably adverb
- ˈ貹 adverb
- ˌ貹ˈٲ noun
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of incapable1
Idioms and Phrases
incapable of,
not having the ability, qualification, or strength for (a specified act or function).
not open to; not susceptible to or admitting.
These materials are incapable of exact measurement.
legally unqualified for.
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Republicans are mostly unwilling to do anything to stand up to Donald Trump, and Democrats are incapable of exerting either formal or informal political power.
People who for years are literally incapable of reason, much less getting their own dinner or finding the six baby gerbils that “somehow” got loose in the bedroom.
Once authorised, the lethal dose would be self-administered by the patient; or by a medical assistant if the patient were incapable.
You didn't have to be a rocket scientist or a political scientist to know that Joe Biden was incapable of running an effective campaign for reelection.
The UN and its donors say the new model is poorly conceived and politically motivated, incapable of replacing the decades-long tried and tested international humanitarian ecosystem in Gaza.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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