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incapable

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1. incapable - Noun

2. incapable - Adjective

3. incapable - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

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.

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.

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.

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.

As a term of disgrace, sometimes annexed to a sentence when an officer has been cashiered and rendered incapable of serving his country.

One who is morally or mentally weak or inefficient; an imbecile; a simpleton.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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...there is nothing that has been created without some reason, even if human nature is incapable of knowing precisely the reason for them all. John Chrysostom

Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate in their object-relations. Sigmund Freud

Those who apply themselves too much to little things often become incapable of great ones. François de La Rochefoucauld

The only trick the incapable has, are his tears. Arabic Proverb

If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. Japanese Proverb

Until a child is one year old it is incapable of sin. Jewish Proverb

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