Usually means: Unable to perform or achieve.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word incapable:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. incapable: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. incapable: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. incapable: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. incapable: Collins English Dictionary
  5. incapable: Vocabulary.com
  6. Incapable, incapable: Wordnik
  7. incapable: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. incapable: Wiktionary
  9. incapable: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. incapable: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. incapable: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. incapable: Dictionary.com
  13. incapable: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. incapable: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Incapable: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. incapable: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. incapable: Rhymezone
  18. incapable, incapable: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. incapable: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. incapable: Free Dictionary
  21. incapable: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. incapable: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. incapable: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. incapable: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See incapability as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Not capable (of doing something); unable.
adjective:  Not in a state to receive; not receptive; not susceptible; not able to admit.
noun:  (dated) One who is morally or mentally weak or inefficient; an imbecile; a simpleton.

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