Synonyms for unable
ʌnˈeɪ bəlun·able

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1. unableadjective

   Antonyms:
   able

2. unableadjective

   Antonyms:
   able

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1. unableadjective

   (usually followed by `to') not having the necessary means or skill or know-how

   "unable to get to town without a car"; "unable to obtain funds"

   Synonyms:
   ineffectual, ineffective, unable(p)

   Antonyms:
   capable, stiff, potent, strong, able

2. unable(p)adjective

   (usually followed by `to') lacking necessary physical or mental ability

   "dyslexics are unable to learn to read adequately"; "the sun was unable to melt enough snow"

   Antonyms:
   stiff, able, strong, capable, potent

3. ineffective, ineffectual, unableadjective

   lacking in power or forcefulness

   "an ineffectual ruler"; "like an unable phoenix in hot ashes"

   Synonyms:
   unavailing, otiose, inefficient, uneffective, ineffective, futile, unable(p), ineffectual

   Antonyms:
   strong, potent, capable, able, stiff

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1. unableadjective

   Synonyms:
   incapable, incompetent, not able, impotent, powerless

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1. unableadjective

   Synonyms:
   incapable

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1. List of paraphrases for "unable":

   incapable, able, impossible, unfit, incompetent, incapacitated, powerless, capable

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1. Xi Jinping:

   Hopefully, the empowerment of China CDC under Shen may achieve something Gao Fu was unable to.

2. Melissa Gilbert:

   While I have received the best treatment and therapy I could have asked for, those injuries have only gotten worse, as much as it breaks my heart to say this, my doctors have told me I am physically unable to continue my run for Congress.

3. Ryan Pack:

   Why do people keep things? Because they need them, because they want them, because they're too afraid to get rid of them, because they're too lazy to discard them, because they don't have the time to dispose of them, because they just don't care enough to remove them, because they are unable to shed them for some reason.

4. Jessica Lahey:

   Every single time we turn around and say, 'I'll just do that for you' or 'Here let me help you with that,' we are saying to them, 'I don't think you can do that for yourself,' and that is really damaging over time. We create a really helpless culture of kids so that now when I talk to college professors, they say these kids show up to college unable to handle anything on their own.

5. Lewis Mumford:

   Unable to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge: from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.