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 …

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.

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.

2012年9月17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”.

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').

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.

2014年2月4日 · Now, this does not break things down quite as neatly as in‑ + cap + ‑able, or even in‑ capere + ‑able but that's because the English word incapable is not in‑ + cap + ‑able. Latin capabilis means comprehensible or intelligent, or being able to be received (in Christian theological use, God and specifically the Holy Spirit is ...

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).

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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