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INCAPABLE

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incapable I.^,adjectiv

1. (of) incapabil (de, să) (de);

incapable of a lie, incapable to lie incapabil de minciună / de a minţi;

incapable of improvement, incapable of being improved incapabil de ameliorare / de îmbunătăţire / de progres;

incapable for / from work incapacitate de muncă;

drunk and incapable beat mort / turtă.

2. necompetent.

3. (înv.) nesimţitor.

4. nesusceptibil.

5. incapabil; incompetent, nepotrivit; neputincios; nedestoinic, nevrednic, nepriceput, neiscusit, neîndemânatic.

6. (jur.) neeligibil, descalificat.

incapable II. substantiv

incapabil, nulitate, non-valoare.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

He could talk well, but he was incapable of expressing himself in a literary way.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

I listened to my father in silence and remained for some time incapable of offering any reply.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The men think us incapable of real friendship, you know, and I am determined to show them the difference.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

“They may be incapable of it. If so, that is their misfortune. I can pity their misfortune.”

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

He had said enough to give Fanny some happier feelings than she had lately known, and with a brighter look, she answered, Yes, cousin, I am convinced that you would be incapable of anything else, though perhaps some might not.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

She was now in perfect charity with Frank Churchill; she wanted no explanations, she wanted only to have her thoughts to herself—and as for understanding any thing he wrote, she was sure she was incapable of it.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

As for Lucy Steele, she considered her so totally unamiable, so absolutely incapable of attaching a sensible man, that she could not be persuaded at first to believe, and afterwards to pardon, any former affection of Edward for her.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

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