Meaning | The quality of not being capable -- physically or intellectually or legally. |
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Synonym | incapableness |
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Narrower | incapacity | lack of physical or natural qualifications |
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Broader | inability, unfitness | lacking the power to perform |
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Opposite | capability, capableness | The quality of being capable -- physically or intellectually or legally |
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Spanish | incapacidad |
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Catalan | incapacitat |
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Adjectives | incapable | (followed by 'of') lacking capacity or ability |
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incapable | (followed by 'of') not having the temperament or inclination for |
incapable | not meeting requirements |
incapable | not being susceptible to or admitting of something (usually followed by 'of') |