Definition of Unable

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Unable

Not able; not having sufficient strength, means, knowledge, skill, or the like; impotent' weak; helpless; incapable; -- now usually followed by an infinitive or an adverbial phrase; as, unable for work; unable to bear fatigue.

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Unable Quotations

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
Maya Angelou

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
Aristotle

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
Anais Nin

The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.
Plato

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
Emily Dickinson

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
Niccolo Machiavelli

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
Blaise Pascal

When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.
Calvin Coolidge

When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results.
Calvin Coolidge

Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.
H. L. Mencken

Unable Translations

unable in French is inapte, inhabile
unable in German is untauglich
unable in Italian is inadatto, incapace
unable in Spanish is echadizo, incapaz, negado

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