capable of something/doing something

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Inability and awkwardness
accident-prone
adorkable
all thumbsidiom
amateurish
amateurishly
fumbling
fumblingly
functional illiteracy
gauche
gauchely
inexpertly
jack-of-all-trades
jack-of-all-trades, master of noneidiom
klutzy
like a bull in a china shopidiom
uncoordinated
uneducable
unenterprising
unequal
ungainly

incapable | American Dictionary

incapable
adjective
us/ɪnˈkeɪ·pə·bəl/
unable to do something:
She’s incapable of hurting a fly.

Examples of incapable

incapable
In many cases parasites are incapable of surviving and multiplying in the absence of a host organism.
Attached to the present, they were incapable of thinking of long-term advantages that would surely derive from political revolution and reforms.
It must be incapable of working with some profiles of individual view.
Ageism has become institutionalised and contributes to the view that elderly people are socially redundant, incapable and dependent.
Indeed, residents are commonly assumed to be incapable of meaningful social interaction.
These domestic animals have been bred with the aim of producing milk and meat and are incapable of performing concomitant immunity.
It would be instructive to hospital administration if the attending and staff physicians collectively were incapable of managing essential patient care services.
It supports our cultural expectations of female behavior, labeling violent women as incapable of making logical choices.
The oocyte is incapable of supporting fertilisation until it has completed this final phase of differentiation, termed maturation.
First, equilibrium models of democracy are by design incapable of accounting for the potential dynamism spawned by the deployment of new democratic ideologies.
Then follows a period of 25-28 days during which the fly is incapable of producing infection.
In addition, some judges of election were apparently illiterate and thus incapable of reading the laws under which they were to conduct the voting.
It might be argued that the proposed reforms were incapable of delivering higher growth.
It is difficult to imagine him incapable of distinguishing a monarchy from a republic or ignorant of the different conditions underlying different political institutions.
Roebling, incapable of movement, was constructing his own self through the mirror image of the bridge.
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