uncapable

[ uhn-key-puh-buhl ]

adjective

Origin of uncapable

1
First recorded in 1580–90; un-1 + capable

Words Nearby uncapable

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How to use uncapable in a sentence

  • There are few things, that are uncapable of being represented by Fiction.

    Leviathan | Thomas Hobbes
  • He that is so statedly distant is uncapable statedly of communion, and therefore uncapable of the relation and name.

    A Christian Directory | Baxter Richard
  • That is, the rightful heir cannot be made uncapable on any account whatsoever to succeed.

  • Yet persons who by melancholy are cast into diseased fears and scrupulosities, are uncapable of this way of trial.

  • While the terms of the question remain ambiguous, it is uncapable of an answer.

    A Christian Directory | Baxter Richard