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incapability

/in-key-puh-buhl/US // ɪnˈkeɪ pə bəl //UK // (ɪnˈkeɪpəbəl) //

无能力,无能,无能为力,无力

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : not capable.
    • : not having the necessary ability, qualification, or strength to perform some specified act or function: As an administrator, he is simply incapable.
    • : without ordinary capability; incompetent.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a thoroughly incompetent person, especially one of defective mentality.

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Examples

  • The Republican Party, which has shown itself to be comprehensively incapable of governing responsibly, will now pose as the guardians of responsible governing.

  • A patient with this condition may, for example, be incapable of naming animals or plants, but unimpaired at naming human-made objects.

  • Because companies using it lack access to their users’ encryption key, the companies are incapable of giving law enforcement access to users’ communications.

  • While I was a capable, responsible child, there were many times, as most of my teachers could attest to, when I was incapable of controlling my impulses.

  • Beyond pointing unregistered voters to their websites, or trying to do outdoor registration drives in a pandemic, election officials are unprepared and incapable of finding and registering eligible Americans who are not participating in democracy.

  • Mobs of people filled the streets, wildly denouncing the incapability of a Government which could lead them to such disaster.

  • Mr. King testily asked Ann Canham, when she was timidly confessing her incapability in the culinary art.

  • "A distinct case of intoxication plus incapability," observed Granby.

  • The most painful thing of all was to hear him improvise on stringed instruments, owing to his incapability of tuning them.

  • His Pierrot of the Minute was himself, and his Cynara was the ever vanishing vision of his own insecurity and incapability.