Found 3 hits - Term: inability, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
inability \in`abil"ity\, n. pref. in- not + ability: cf. f.
inhabilet'e. see able, and cf. unable.
the quality or state of being unable; lack of ability; lack
of sufficient power, strength, resources, or capacity.
1913 webster
it is not from an inability to discover what they ought
to do, that men err in practice. --blair.
syn: impotence; incapacity; incompetence; weakness;
powerlessness; incapability. see disability.
1913 webster
see also:
able unable disability
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
inability
n 1: lack of ability especially mental ability to do something
ant: ability
2: lacking the power to perform syn: unfitness ant: ability
see also:
ability unfitness
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
46 moby thesaurus words for "inability":
disability, disablement, disqualification, imbecility, inadeptness,
inadequacy, inaptitude, inaptness, inattentiveness, incapability,
incapacitation, incapacity, incompetence, incompetency,
indexterity, ineffectiveness, ineffectuality, ineffectualness,
inefficiency, ineptitude, ineptness, infancy, inferiority,
insufficiency, legal incapacity, maladjustment, maladroitness,
mediocrity, minority, pedestrianism, rustiness, skill-lessness,
thoughtlessness, unaptness, uncleverness, undeftness,
undexterousness, undextrousness, unfitness, unfittedness,
unintelligence, unproficiency, unschooledness, unskillfulness,
untrainedness, wardship
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