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UK
/ɪnkˈeɪpəbəl/
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[ US /ˌɪnˈkeɪpəbəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnˈkeɪpəbəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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(followed by `of') not having the temperament or inclination for
simply incapable of lying -
not being susceptible to or admitting of something (usually followed by `of')
incapable of solution -
not meeting requirements
unequal to the demands put upon him -
(followed by `of') lacking capacity or ability
he is incapable of understanding the matter
incapable of doing the work
incapable of carrying a tune
How To Use incapable In A Sentence
- The faces he recognized were those of the laziest and most incapable workmen in the town -- men whose weekly wages were habitually docked for drunkenness, late hours, and botchy work. The Bread-winners A Social Study
- But decades of research have gone by and scientists remain incapable of creating a sustainable fusion reaction that could be used to create reliable power.
- Although he had not howled once, his snarling and growling, combined with his thirst, had hoarsened his throat and dried the mucous membranes of his mouth so that he was incapable, except under the sheerest provocation, of further sound. CHAPTER XVI
- Furthermore, those charged with supervising the company on our behalf and protecting our savings were either incapable or unable to force the insurer to live in the real world.
- It would emasculate the trial process, and undermine public confidence in the administration of criminal justice, if a standard of perfection were imposed that was incapable of attainment in practice.
- He's a pompous old prig who's totally incapable of taking a joke.
- Even though this denial has to some extent to do with Habermas’s understandable fight with the ghost of Heidegger, he seems now to turn this into a new orthodoxy, thereby showing how critical theory is incapable of critiquing its very foundational presuppositions such as valorization of rational argumentations, performative competence, validity claims and linguistic intersubjectivity instead of emotional intersubjectivity Craib, 1998. Jürgen Habermas, Sri Aurobindo and Beyond
- But he proved just as incapable in manhood as he was in infancy. Times, Sunday Times
- extended sense", but they are incapable of satisfying (B2), precisely because their way of satisfying (B1) is committed to a non-concatenative realization of syntactic structures. The Language of Thought Hypothesis
- Siamese twins died Friday night due to a complex congenital cardiopathy (a badly formed heart that both shared and which was incapable of pumping blood), according to Radio Programas del Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7