(a.) Wanting in ability or qualification for the purpose or end in view; not large enough to contain or hold; deficient in physical strength, mental or moral power, etc.; not capable; as, incapable of holding a certain quantity of liquid; incapable of endurance, of comprehension, of perseverance, of reform, etc.
(a.) Not capable of being brought to do or perform, because morally strong or well disposed; -- used with reference to some evil; as, incapable of wrong, dishonesty, or falsehood.
(a.) Not in a state to receive; not receptive; not susceptible; not able to admit; as, incapable of pain, or pleasure; incapable of stain or injury.
(a.) Unqualified or disqualified, in a legal sense; as, a man under thirty-five years of age is incapable of holding the office of president of the United States; a person convicted on impeachment is thereby made incapable of holding an office of profit or honor under the government.
(a.) As a term of disgrace, sometimes annexed to a sentence when an officer has been cashiered and rendered incapable of serving his country.
(n.) One who is morally or mentally weak or inefficient; an imbecile; a simpleton.
Example Sentences:
(1) Absorption of this serum with embryo cells eliminated cytotoxicity against MCA-2 and MCA-12 cells, but was incapable of lowering the titer against MCA-3 cells below 1:40.
(2) CP analogues that lacked the NH group at N3 or were otherwise incapable of alkyl isocyanate release were inactive.
(3) An analysis of 22 non-invasive EPEC TnphoA mutants revealed that seven have insertions in the EAF plasmid and are incapable of localized adherence.
(4) Exact comparisons of recovery of ocular tone (Maddox Wing test) between the anaesthetics were not possible as both Althesin and methohexitone rendered some patients incapable of taking the tests in the early post-operative period.
(5) Similarly, the fetus is an ideal recipient of allogeneic fetal cells as it is incapable of rejecting them early in gestation.
(6) Myocardial perfusion is best evaluated at rest and during exercise, however, alternative methods have been sought to increase coronary blood flow in patients incapable of performing adequate exercise.
(7) Cocaine was considered incapable of producing dependence in 1980 but was recently proclaimed the drug of greatest national health concern.
(8) We have documented that the profoundly depressed postcardiotomy left ventricle, initially incapable of ejection, can recover during total left ventricular unloading with the abdominal left ventricular assist device support over a seven-day period.
(9) Results are presented which show that the D-xylose isomerases present in Streptomyces olivaceus and Streptomyces phaeochromogenes NRRL B-3559 are incapable of utilizing D-lyxose as a substrate.
(10) In contrast, all three molecules were incapable of inducing IFN-alpha when added into either purified monocyte or lymphocyte cultures.
(11) Extracts of liver and lung were incapable of catabolizing any of the analogues.
(12) In fact the then president, Amadou Toumani Touré, known as "ATT" more out of derision than any sense of affection, was viewed as deeply corrupt and incapable of delivering the changes that Mali – still one of the five least-developed countries in the world – needed.
(13) On Thursday, conservative analyst Ross Douthat wrote: “A party whose leading factions often seemed incapable of budging from 1980s-era dogma suddenly caved completely.” On Friday, former top Barack Obama strategist David Axelrod tweeted : “The Day After: seems as if @GOP establishment is measuring @realDonaldTrump as a moldable vessel.
(14) I seem incapable of capturing the stories of those I meet.
(15) It can bring about specialized transduction of proAB and phoE mutants of E. coli, but it is incapable of general transduction.
(16) It said Damascus had proved itself "incapable of using its weapons systems proportionately or discriminately" and had fired lethal Scud missiles against its own cities, such as Aleppo.
(17) In the 1990s he was almost incapable of not writing a masterpiece – The Human Stain, The Plot Against America, I Married a Communist.
(18) Methaemoglobin is incapable of transporting oxygen.
(19) Sheep infection trials indicate that the PLD-negative C. pseudotuberculosis strain (Toxminus) is incapable of inducing caseous lymphadentis (cheesy gland) even at doses two logs higher than that at which the wild-type strain produces the disease.
(20) Cotransformants of yeast cells by two partially homologous plasmids, one of which is incapable of autonomous replication, has been used to construct multiply marked recombinant plasmids.
Lifeless
Definition:
(a.) Destitute of life, or deprived of life; not containing, or inhabited by, living beings or vegetation; dead, or apparently dead; spiritless; powerless; dull; as, a lifeless carcass; lifeless matter; a lifeless desert; a lifeless wine; a lifeless story.
Example Sentences:
(1) He was put on a gurney and he was lifeless,” she said.
(2) It all started with a problem Wolf was having in her own sex life; the quality of her orgasms suddenly changed from being full of light and colour and what she describes in terms of transcendental experience, to something dull and lifeless.
(3) Southall and coworkers have demonstrated in a recent study that attacks of lifelessness with sudden and severe hypoxemia and cyanosis are caused by a combination of respiratory arrest in expiration, and a right-to-left shunting of the blood through the lungs due to increased pulmonary vascular resistance.
(4) She felt hollow and lifeless and compared herself to the calm centre of a tornado, "moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo", she writes.
(5) From start to finish, maybe apart from the first five minutes, it was a pretty lifeless performance,” Muscat said.
(6) The mastiff fell lifeless and Stapleton was swallowed in Grimpen Mire.
(7) Perhaps, the evolution of medicine has eclipsed what was once sensational, disturbing, interesting, and marketable, leaving only the dry and lifeless bones of stories--remnants of what once they were.
(8) It is physiology's responsibility to put together the lifeless pieces of the molecular biologist into living systems.
(9) Several men from the local fire department and EMT department are already there, hovering around the seemingly lifeless body of a 31-year-old man on the living room floor in a soaking wet T-shirt and jeans.
(10) The latest tragedies follow the death of a Syrian toddler whose lifeless body was photographed washed up on a Turkish beach last week, becoming a heartwrenching symbol of the plight of asylum seekers fleeing war.
(11) Hidalgo, currently deputy mayor of Paris and the pollsters' favourite to win the municipal election in March, caused a storm when she announced she wanted to transform Avenue Foch, which some critics have described as a "lifeless urban motorway", into a "green corridor" leading straight to the neighbouring Bois de Boulogne public park.
(12) In a variety of new situations under the beaker (presence of a lifeless object, of a grouped mouse or of an isolated mouse), the isolated mice were more reactive than the grouped mice.
(13) Aggressive treatment, including emergency room thoracotomy, is justified for lifeless and deteriorating cardiac injury victims.
(14) Now that I’m rewilding my once-lifeless garden, I’m hoping to be surprised.
(15) These laws will be used to stamp out plurality and difference, to douse the exuberance of youth, to pursue children for the crime of being young and together in a public place, to help turn this nation into a money-making monoculture, controlled, homogenised, lifeless, strifeless and bland.
(16) The US can either use the lifeless tissue for transplants or for other research or it can throw it away.
(17) Early Thursday morning, one penguin was spotted floating lifelessly in the pool.
(18) But soon after returning, “there is no energy and you are lifeless and you are dull”.
(19) Emergency room thoracotomy was performed in 17 "lifeless" patients, 4 of whom survived.
(20) Economic turmoil, a lifeless advertising market and print publications folding across the industry - it is a strange time to launch a magazine.