When even when you want to go to your friends' party you're incapable of telling your mother you are going to miss her birthday dinner, it means you just can't do it, and that you're a good person. Incapable means "unable."
Wanting in ability or qualification for the purpose or end in view; not large enough to contain or hold; deficient in physical strength, mental or moral power, etc.; not capable;
Adjective S.
not meeting requirements; "unequal to the demands put upon him"
Adjective
(followed by `of'') lacking capacity or ability; "incapable of carrying a tune"; "he is incapable of understanding the matter"; "incapable of doing the work"
Adjective
(followed by `of'') not having the temperament or inclination for; "simply incapable of lying"
Adjective S.
lacking the necessary skill or knowledge etc.; "an incapable helper"
a.
Wanting in ability or qualification for the purpose or
end in view; not large enough to contain or hold; deficient in physical
strength, mental or moral power, etc.; not capable; as, incapable of
holding a certain quantity of liquid; incapable of endurance, of
comprehension, of perseverance, of reform, etc.
a.
Not capable of being brought to do or perform, because
morally strong or well disposed; -- used with reference to some evil;
as, incapable of wrong, dishonesty, or falsehood.
a.
Not in a state to receive; not receptive; not
susceptible; not able to admit; as, incapable of pain, or pleasure;
incapable of stain or injury.
a.
Unqualified or disqualified, in a legal sense; as, a man
under thirty-five years of age is incapable of holding the office of
president of the United States; a person convicted on impeachment is
thereby made incapable of holding an office of profit or honor under
the government.
a.
As a term of disgrace, sometimes annexed to a sentence
when an officer has been cashiered and rendered incapable of serving
his country.
n.
One who is morally or mentally weak or inefficient; an
imbecile; a simpleton.
Incapable
Is not your father grown incapable of reasonable affairs?
Incapable
Wanting in ability or qualification for the purpose or end in view; not large enough to contain or hold; deficient in physical strength, mental or moral power, etc.; not capable;
One who is morally or mentally weak or inefficient; an imbecile; a simpleton.
Usage Examples
An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
Concerns about the size and role of government are what seem to leave reformers stammering and speechless in town-hall meetings. The right wants to have a debate over fundamental principles elected Democrats seem incapable of giving it to them.
I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love it is the prerogative of the brave.
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Other Usage ExamplesIn movies, there are some things the French do that Americans are increasingly incapable of doing. One is honoring the complexities of youth. It's a quiet, difficult undertaking, requiring subtlety in a filmmaker and perception and patience from us.
I think leaders are incapable of the strength that passive resistance entails.
Actors who are lovers in real life are often incapable if playing the part of lovers to an audience. It is equally true that sympathy between actors who are not lovers may create a temporary emotion that is perfectly sincere.
Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.
I have a character failing. I am quite incapable of identifying with anything whole-heartedly. Whatever I am doing, I am always planning to do something else. I would rather travel than arrive.
All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.
But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.
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