Definitions for incapable

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incapable in·ca·pa·ble

Spelling: [in-key-puh-buh l]

IPA: /ɪnˈkeɪ pə bəl/

Incapable is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 409 anagrams from letters in incapable (aabceilnp).

Definitions for incapable

adjective

1. not capable.
2. not having the necessary ability, qualification, or strength to perform some specified act or function:
3. without ordinary capability; incompetent.

noun

1. a thoroughly incompetent person, especially one of defective mentality.

Idioms

1. incapable of, not having the ability, qualification, or strength for (a specified act or function). not open to; not susceptible to or admitting: legally unqualified for.

Origin of incapable

From the Late Latin word incapābilis, dating back to 1585-95. See in-³, capable

Examples for incapable

Used without a German army on the ground, as it had been in mainland Europe, the Luftwaffe was incapable of securing victory.

He was incapable of speaking, and the driver, busy with his horses, said no more.

Keep the capable man down and you may level the incapable one up.

Without true grace mankind was weak, and incapable of success.

Nancy, on the other hand, was incapable of communicating her wishes.

Rima, incapable of understanding such a thing, took it differently.

She is incapable of responding to kindness and enquiry, even very gentle flirting on the part of a co-worker.

Unlike influenza, it is incapable of traveling through tiny microscopic particles.

Hinde gaped at him, incapable of expressing himself with sufficient force.

A “simple bout of flu” is incapable of mutating into an Ebola infection.