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- Uncapable or incapable? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
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 predates in capable (1586 1 vs 1597 2 , respectively)
- Is there a word, phrase or idiom for a person who is incapable of . . .
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
- suffixes - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
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
- Is there a word for people incapable of thinking?
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
- Usage of (in)capable - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
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?
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')
- He thought me incapable . . . - What is this pattern?
He thought me incapable of doing so I wished them dead Many verbs take more than one complementation pattern These verbs above are best thought of as verbs which can take different types of complements, because there are many verbs that take infinitival clauses as complements which cannot be "reduced" in this way For example:
- Is there a word similar to infallible that means incapable of being . . .
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
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