Synonym: incompetent, unable, unfit, unqualified. Antonym: capable. Similar words: capable, capability, culpable, palpable, impalpable, capacity, encapsulate, encapsulated. Meaning: ['ɪn'keɪpəbl] adj. 1. (followed by `of') lacking capacity or ability 2. not being susceptible to or admitting of something (usually followed by `of') 3. lacking the necessary skill or knowledge etc. 4. (followed by `of') not having the temperament or inclination for 5. not meeting requirements.
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91, The critics assumed that blacks were inferior, incapable of running their own affairs.
92, She suggests that hysteria was an alternative role option for women incapable of accepting their life situation in rigid family roles.
93, Some analysts express concern that the new systems will be less secure and incapable of doing donkey work like batch processing.
94, So Edwin Garland had almost certainly been incapable of fathering a child.
95, Many youngsters who've been brought up in care are often incapable of looking after themselves.
96, It is little wonder then, given these handicaps of sheer physiology, that chimps are incapable of speech.
97, Similarly in the international arena, an emasculated politics is incapable of sustaining an effective national defense.
98, From up there, the grazing Holsteins are only black and white specks which seem incapable of movement.
99, The schools, in fact, seemed almost incapable of self-governance or self-reform.
100, Many youngsters who've been brought up in care are often incapable of looking after themselves when they leave.
101, It is much cheaper and easier to treat residents as passive and incapable.
102, All this is not to say that Basil was incapable of showing normal human impatience or intolerance.
103, She sat rigidly, shaking, incapable of anything other than being there, pliant in his hands.
104, It meant she could answer without thinking, which was an infinite mercy, for suddenly she was quite incapable of thinking.
105, She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love. William Faulkner
106, She ruled out topical references and jokes, understanding perfectly that her executive producer was incapable of appreciating either.
107, Her supervisor said she lacked sensitivity to business issues and was incapable of interacting with other employees, the suit said.
108, Raskin, meanwhile,[http://sentencedict.com/incapable.html] insisted that Jobs was incapable of running a successful project.
109, It is a long interview because he is constitutionally incapable of answering a question without at least three long digressions.
110, There was no possibility now that she could capsize: built with positive buoyancy, she was incapable of sinking.
111, In fact, every inch of her was quite incapable of movement.
112, Must we then conclude that the Zande are in these terms irrational, incapable of rational, cause-and-effect reasoning?
113, But cruel Freudian aversion therapy proved incapable of changing it, and the fashion then changed to hormonal explanations.
114, But now there is the pressing problem of what to do with Mr Landor who seems incapable of acting for himself.
115, Utterly without designs, equipment, opportunities, he felt incapable of despair.
116, The Parliamentary Council feared a democratic state incapable of functioning as much as a dictatorship too capable of functioning.
117, The majority of the incinerators are incapable of reaching sufficiently high temperatures.
118, Moreover, because of their physical and mental weakness women were clearly incapable of qualifying as doctors themselves.
119, And planning certainly proved incapable of maintaining accumulation once conditions became unfavourable.
120, The fact that he was entirely unsuited for military command, being incapable of making a decision, was irrelevant.
More similar words: capable, capability, culpable, palpable, impalpable, capacity, encapsulate, encapsulated, able, viable, cable, table, unable, gabled, enable, notable, liable, usable, amiable, tableau, affable, parable, be able to, likable, sociable, amicable, disabled, sizeable, malleable, reliable.