incapable

unfähig

Ohne die Fähigkeit oder Kraft, die für eine bestimmte Handlung nötig ist.

In einfachem Englisch: 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?

So benutzt man es: incapable of doing something (She was incapable of lifting the box.); incapable of something (The old computer is incapable of complex calculations.)

Synonyme: unable

Gegenteile: capable

Häufige Wendungen: incapable of something, completely incapable, incapable of working

unempfänglich

Nicht in der Lage, etwas zu empfinden oder dadurch beeinflusst oder verändert zu werden.

In einfachem Englisch: 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.

So benutzt man es: incapable of something (The writer imagined a creature incapable of pain.)

Synonyme: insusceptible

Gegenteile: susceptible

Häufige Wendungen: incapable of pain, incapable of injury, incapable of stain