Uncapable or incapable? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange However, it is clear that incapable has won the battle for survival-of-the-lexically-fittest, and I agree that you should generally prefer incapable, absent some really compelling reason to use uncapable (for example, if you were trying to enforce a different-than-expected definition, or wanted to sound archaic)
Is there a word, phrase or idiom for a person who is incapable of . . . 2 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
Is there a word for people incapable of thinking? Try they are, though, for the unthinking There is an important difference between being incapable of thinking and merely being out the habit (as Paul Tabori expounds in his The Natural Science of Stupidity); but it seems to me likely that the latter side is the one you are really looking for a word for
comparisons - Am I wrong or is this no less incapable sentence from . . . "No less incapable" does have 3 negatives, but they are not directly opposed, so there is at least a shade of difference between "no less incapable" and "no more capable" or even "not capable" It should be understood more like "not (less capable)" which might be instead phrased as "at least as capable as"
suffixes - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Is there any dictionary that shows the decomposition of each word into these three parts, if application at all? For instance, "incapable" is divided into prefix "in", root "cap", and suffix "able"
What is a word for cannot-be-wrong attitude? NOAD's definition of self-righteous reads: "having or characterized by a certainty, esp an unfounded one, that one is totally correct or morally superior " In this case, the "totally correct" part is what the O P seems to be looking for; however, when I hear this word used, it's usually applied to "moral superiority" – and many of the word's listed synonyms reflect that: sanctimonious
He thought me incapable . . . - What is this pattern? In sentences (1-3) insane, incapable of doing so and dead are predicative complements Predicative complements are complements of the verb that describe another argument of the verb, usually the subject or the object In this case they are adjective phrases describing the objects him, me and them This means we can parse the sentences like this: