incapable

incapable

Qui n’a pas les capacités ou la force nécessaires pour faire quelque chose.

En anglais simple : If you cannot do something, you lack the ability or strength needed for it.

• He is incapable of cooking.
• I felt incapable of making a decision.
• Is this machine incapable of working faster?

Comment l'utiliser : incapable of doing something (She was incapable of lifting the box.); incapable of something (The old computer is incapable of complex calculations.)

Synonymes : unable

Contraires : capable

Expressions courantes : incapable of something, completely incapable, incapable of working

insensible, imperméable

Qui ne peut pas ressentir quelque chose, ni être touché ou modifié par cela.

En anglais simple : Unable to feel something or be affected or changed by it.

• The creature was incapable of pain.
• They believed the material was incapable of stain.
• He described the spirit as incapable of injury.

Comment l'utiliser : incapable of something (The writer imagined a creature incapable of pain.)

Synonymes : insusceptible

Contraires : susceptible

Expressions courantes : incapable of pain, incapable of injury, incapable of stain