Definition of "incapable" []

• Lacking the necessary ability, capacity, or power: incapable of carrying a tune; incapable of love. (adjective)
• Unable to perform adequately; incompetent: an incapable administrator. (adjective)
• Usage Problem Not susceptible to action or treatment: a unique feat, incapable of duplication. See Usage Note at able. (adjective)
• Law Lacking legal qualifications or requirements; ineligible. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "As long as Dawkins remains who he is now, he will remain incapable of seeing an angel of the Lord."
• "We say that what the country needs is bipartisanship -- well we know that the GOP in incapable of doing it so we have to lead by example and help them to fake it until they make it."
• "The close reading of which "most of us" are incapable is a reading that begins by recognizing the highly nuanced way in which literary language gestures toward doxa rather than naming it."