incapable

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Scrabble points
15
Words With Friends
20
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/ɪnˈkeɪpəbl̩/
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/ɪnˈkeɪpəbl̩/ · /ɪŋˈkeɪpəbl̩/

Definition of incapable

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Not capable (of doing something); unable.
    “A pint glass is incapable of holding more than a pint of liquid.”
    “I consider him incapable of dishonesty.”
    “The British people seem incapable of avoiding the habit of leaving litter wherever they go, and the railways certainly seem to receive their fair share of it, in carriages and on stations.”
    “According to the prevailing Danish rationale, Greenlanders were naïve and childlike, in need of protection and incapable of governing themselves.”
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adj

  1. Not capable (of doing something); unable.
    “A pint glass is incapable of holding more than a pint of liquid.”
    “I consider him incapable of dishonesty.”
    “The British people seem incapable of avoiding the habit of leaving litter wherever they go, and the railways certainly seem to receive their fair share of it, in carriages and on stations.”
    “According to the prevailing Danish rationale, Greenlanders were naïve and childlike, in need of protection and incapable of governing themselves.”
  2. Not in a state to receive; not receptive; not susceptible; not able to admit.
    “incapable of pain, or pleasure; incapable of stain or injury”

noun

  1. (dated)One who is morally or mentally weak or inefficient; an imbecile; a simpleton.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French incapable, equivalent to in- + capable.

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