"Uncapable" or "incapable"? - English Language & Usage Stack …
2016年9月27日 · I agree with the accepted answer that incapable is the best word for most occasions. However, a small note about the history and "wordness" of uncapable : According to the OED's attestations, un capable actually slightly …
Is there a word for people incapable of thinking?
2015年7月10日 · It would be better of the poster clarified what they mean by 'incapable'. Incapable by figurative sense or literal senses. Well seeing as how stupid is used as an insult it wouldn't fit. As I see it from y studies in neurology and archetypal psychology, there is no such thing as 'incapable' of thinking unless the brain is fully dead.
Is there a word, phrase or idiom for "a person who is incapable of ...
2017年11月28日 · I need a word/ phrase/ idiom to describe a (real) person who is always living in the past and present, but is incapable of thinking about the future. He has often been criticized by someone for being unable to think ahead or make long range plans.
Usage of " (in)capable" - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
2017年3月16日 · The usage is acceptable, if I correctly understand the third sense of incapable in OED 1: “Of such a nature, or in such a condition, as not to allow or admit of; not admitting or susceptible of. ... Equivalent to ‘that cannot’ with an infinitive passive; e.g. incapable of measurement, or incapable of being measured”.
Could not - was incapable of, was capable of not, or ambiguous?
2019年5月14日 · As per my understanding, 'can not' (present tense of 'able to not') has an entirely different meaning from 'cannot' (present tense of 'not able to').
Is there a word similar to infallible that means "incapable of being ...
2014年11月28日 · Schlemiel In Yiddish/American slang, a dopey, awkward person--a person who never gets any good luck and who is not particularly graceful The word 'schlemiel' means 'chronic bungler' in Yiddish (from a character in a classic German fable by A. von Chamissa (1781-1838) The fable,'The Wonderful History of Peter Schlemihl' appeared in 1813.
Is there a word for 'a person who can't differentiate between right …
2016年3月5日 · Such persons need not be intellectually impaired, but they are incapable of intellectually understanding other's distinction between good and evil and unable to have any emotional connection to the concepts. A clinical description may be found in Mental Deficiency (amentia) by A F Tredgold (1922).
single word requests - What do you call someone who refuses to ...
incorrigible: incapable of being corrected or amended In context, the word usually implies that the person doesn't respond well to criticism or admit fault. Share
A word to describe a person who makes a lot of mistakes but is …
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A present day adjective for "cannot be taken away"
2014年8月27日 · From en.wiktionary, indelible has senses “incapable of being annulled [eg] They are endued with indelible power from above”, “having the quality of being difficult to remove, wash away, blot out, or efface”, and “incapable of being canceled, lost, or forgotten”. For example, “This experience will leave an indelible and delectable ...