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unable
adjective as in not having talent, skill
Strongest matches
helpless, impotent, inadequate, incapable, not able, powerless, sidelined, unfit, weak
Weak matches
can't cut it, can't hack it, can't make the grade, clumsy, hog-tied, impuissant, incapacitated, incompetent, ineffectual, inefficacious, inefficient, inept, inoperative, no can do, no good, not cut out for, not equal to, not up to, out of commission, unfitted, unqualified, unskilled
Example Sentences
It closed in 2019, unable to compete with low-cost natural gas.
Aid agencies believe many people did not get very far - unable to escape because of danger, or detention, or the cost of buying their way out.
Just look at the 6.5 million older adults caught in the “middle market,” unable to afford long-term care but ineligible for Medicaid.
It struggled to finish drives, unable to convert on two makeable field goals.
The U.K. government demonstrated the problem with its annual budget, where it is stuck in a trilemma, unable to please lenders and voters while also doing the right thing for the economy.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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