unable
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 12
- Letters
- 6
/ʌnˈeɪbl̩/
Definition of unable
3 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
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Not able; lacking a certain ability.
“Are you unable to mind your own business or something?”
“Fulham switched off as Giggs took a quick corner to Valencia. He played it back to Giggs, whose cross was headed in by Nani with the lurking Rooney unable to add a touch.”
“Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […] But the scandals kept coming, […]. A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul.”
“The train operating company owning group warned in early December that it was unable to publish its results for the year to July 3 2021, following an investigation into the running of Southeastern, which was stripped of its franchise in October [...].”
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adj
-
Not able; lacking a certain ability.
“Are you unable to mind your own business or something?”
“Fulham switched off as Giggs took a quick corner to Valencia. He played it back to Giggs, whose cross was headed in by Nani with the lurking Rooney unable to add a touch.”
“Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […] But the scandals kept coming, […]. A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul.”
“The train operating company owning group warned in early December that it was unable to publish its results for the year to July 3 2021, following an investigation into the running of Southeastern, which was stripped of its franchise in October [...].”
intj
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Indicating that a requested course of action is not possible to carry out.
“"November three seven kilo, climb and maintain twelve thousand." "Unable, we have pressurization problems. Maintaining nine thousand."”
verb
- (nonstandard, transitive)To render unable; to disable.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English unable, unabel, unhable, unhabil, equivalent to un- + able.
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