INCAPABLE vs IRRESPONSIBLE: NOUN
- One who lacks mental or physical capacity, either general or special.
- One who is morally or mentally weak or inefficient; an imbecile; a simpleton.
- One who has no sense of responsibility.
- Someone who is not responsible.
INCAPABLE vs IRRESPONSIBLE: ADJECTIVE
- Not meeting the requirements necessary for proper legal functioning.
- Not meeting requirements
- Not susceptible to action or treatment.
- Unable to perform adequately; incompetent.
- Lacking the necessary ability, capacity, or power.
- Lacking the necessary skill or knowledge etc.
- (followed by `of') not having the temperament or inclination for
- (followed by `of') lacking capacity or ability
- Not meeting the physical and mental requirements imposed by law for the performance of a particular task.
- Not being susceptible to or admitting of something (usually followed by `of')
- Not capable (of doing something); unable.
- As a term of disgrace, sometimes annexed to a sentence when an officer has been cashiered and rendered incapable of serving his country.
- Unqualified or disqualified, in a legal sense
- Not in a state to receive; not receptive; not susceptible; not able to admit
- Lacking in ability or qualification for the purpose or end in view; not large enough to contain or hold; deficient in physical strength, mental or moral power, etc.; not capable
- Not capable of being brought to do or perform, because morally strong or well disposed; -- used with reference to some evil.
- Lacking a sense of responsibility; incapable of or not chargeable with responsibility; unable to respond to obligation.
- Not to be trusted; unreliable; lacking a proper sense of responsibility.
- Not responsible; not liable or able to answer for consequences; innocent.
- Not liable to be called to account by a higher authority.
- Lacking a sense of responsibility; unreliable or untrustworthy.
- Marked by a lack of responsibility.
- Showing lack of care for consequences
INCAPABLE vs IRRESPONSIBLE: OTHER WORD TYPES
- Synonyms Incapable, Unable. Incapable properly denotes a want of passive power, the power of receiving, and is applicable particularly to the mind, or said of something inanimate: as, a body once dead is incapable of restoration to life. The word often applies to moral inability: as, he is quite incapable of doing a thing so base; or otherwise it approaches essentially the more active meanings of unable. Unable denotes the want of active power or power of performing, being applicable to the body or to the mind: we could not say that Achilles was unable to be wounded, but we could say that Achilles was incapable of a wound. In law capable and incapable refer more frequently to legal qualification, able and unable to physical facility or hindrance: as, a man may not be legally incapable of doing an act, yet from circumstances be practically unable to do it.
- Not capable legally; unqualified; disqualified by law; wanting legal warrant or capacity.
- Not capable of understanding or comprehending; wanting appreciation; unconscious.
- Not capable of receiving or admitting; not susceptible: as, his lot is incapable of amelioration.
- Lacking sufficient capacity or capaciousness; insufficient, unfit, or unqualified: in this and the succeeding uses commonly followed by of.
- Not capable.
- Not capable of or chargeable with responsibility; unable to respond to obligation, as an insolvent debtor; not subject to or incurring legal responsibility, as an infant or idiot for his acts; not of a responsible nature or character.
- Not responsible; not subject to responsibility; not to be held accountable, or called into question: as, an irresponsible government; the irresponsible control of wealth.
INCAPABLE vs IRRESPONSIBLE: RELATED WORDS
- Unfit, Incapacitated, Useless, Powerless, Ineffective, Inept, Impotent, Capable, Unequal to, Insusceptible, Unable, Unsusceptible, Unqualified, Inadequate, Incompetent
- Head in the clouds, Harum scarum, Happy go lucky, Do nothing, Devil may care, Loose, Idle, Freewheeling, Slaphappy, Carefree, Scatterbrained, Flighty, Unreliable, Unaccountable, Feckless
INCAPABLE vs IRRESPONSIBLE: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Unfit, Incapacitated, Useless, Powerless, Ineffective, Inept, Impotent, Capable, Unequal to, Insusceptible, Unable, Unsusceptible, Unqualified, Inadequate, Incompetent
- Trigger happy, Head in the clouds, Harum scarum, Happy go lucky, Devil may care, Loose, Idle, Freewheeling, Slaphappy, Carefree, Scatterbrained, Flighty, Unreliable, Unaccountable, Feckless
INCAPABLE vs IRRESPONSIBLE: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- If our prisons are incapable of acting Mr.
- Incapable of knowing it is contrary to law.
- Heaven because we are incapable of doing so.
- DBD, which renders them incapable of DNA binding.
- Chapter until an accompanying person for the child or incapable person accompanies the child or incapable person.
- Or that you steal from other countries because they are incapable of governing themselves, or because their governors are incapable of stealing from them.
- He is absolutely incapable of lying, just as he is incapable of getting drunk.
- It appears that the poor student is not so much incapable of learning as he is incapable of learning fast enough to keep up.
- It also finally means being incapable of corruption; not subject to decay or dissolution; incapable of being bribed or morally corrupted.
- Four or more care recipients are incapable of selfpreservation, whether rendered incapable by staff or staff has accepted responsibility for care recipients already incapable.
- Leaking the information is considered an irresponsible act.
- Would you call yourself financially responsible or irresponsible?
- ONE test, I think, is negligent and irresponsible.
- India, which he regarded as hasty and irresponsible.
- "He said when he was young and irresponsible, he was 'young and irresponsible' and he left it at that.".
- It was irresponsible of us to borrow, but it was also irresponsible of them to lend.
- He warned political party leaders and their members to refrain from making irresponsible, inflammatory statements or pronouncements which may incite irresponsible or violent behaviour.
- Irresponsible breeding is the number one factor in where pit bulls show up on this list, and irresponsible owners are number two.
- It is the irresponsible owner and or the irresponsible breeder.
- As we all know, lax lending practices earlier this decade led to irresponsible lending and irresponsible borrowing.
INCAPABLE vs IRRESPONSIBLE: QUESTIONS
- Do Chinese schools produce automatons incapable of critical thought?
- When is a bicycle incapable of providing further assistance?
- How has Heartbreak rendered her almost incapable of Love?
- What medical conditions make you incapable of self-care?
- Are Horrocks Engineers incapable of basic reading comprehension?
- Is utilitarianism structurally incapable of understanding human rights?
- Is Morrissey intellectually incapable of defending his actions?
- Are most people incapable of forming equanimity opinions?
- Are preschoolers incapable of interpreting violent cartoons?
- What actions are incapable of pecuniary estimation?
- Is it irresponsible to be permissive with your child?
- Should we blame the stores for their irresponsible practices?
- When is the Dan + Shay irresponsible music video out?
- What are the penalties for irresponsible driving in Singapore?
- Is your company behaving socially responsible or irresponsible?
- How to deal with a financially irresponsible spouse?
- What are the causes of irresponsible business practices?
- Does God have any business with irresponsible people?
- What is irresponsible corporate social responsibility (CSR)?
- Are psychological thrillers socially irresponsible?