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Incapable

adjective

(followed by 'of') lacking capacity or ability. "He is incapable of understanding the matter" , "Incapable of doing the work"

Not being susceptible to or admitting of something (usually followed by 'of').

(followed by 'of') not having the temperament or inclination for.

Not meeting requirements. Synonyms: incompetent, unequal to.

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"Incapable" Quotes from Famous Books

... curious to say, we are told that the keenest eye has not yet been able to detect any peculiarity in these plants to account for these strange motions. It has been suggested that they are due to changes in the weather of such a slight character that, "our nerves are incapable of appreciating them, or the mercury of recording their ...

— The Folk-lore of Plants • T. F. Thiselton-Dyer

... Miss Howard," said Katherine, checking her uneasy footsteps, her light form swelling with pride; "Mr. Barnstable is equally incapable of murdering an enemy or of deserting ...

— The Pilot • J. Fenimore Cooper

... One might as well forbid the hand to grasp, the eye to see, nay, more, it will not do to confound the child of genius with the fool, or to suppose that the one needs not a mental aliment of which the other is incapable. Feed well the hungry mind, lest it perish of inanition. It is a sponge in infancy that imbibes ideas without an effort; it is a safety-valve through which fancy and poetry conduct away foul vapors; it is an alembic, retaining ...

— Miriam Monfort - A Novel • Catherine A. Warfield

... only those facts about which, after much attention and inquiry, I could satisfy my own mind. That they are ignorant savages cannot be disputed; but I hope they do not in the foregoing pages appear to be wholly incapable of becoming one day civilized ...

— An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Vol. 1 • David Collins

... condition, but that they are individually under condemnation before God (Jno. 3:18); their borrowed interest in morality and charity being a poor commendation, in view of their fallen and Christ-rejecting attitude before God. They are also incapable of comprehending the standards of God, whose thoughts and ways are above their thoughts and ways as the heavens are higher than the earth (Isa. 55:8,9). The quality and incapacity of the fallen race is accurately described in Rom. 3:10-18; this description of them being ...

— Satan • Lewis Sperry Chafer

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