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[ in-uh-bil-i-tee ] / ˌɪn əˈbɪl ɪ ti / SEE SYNONYMS FOR inability ON THESAURUS.COM
nounlack of ability; lack of power, capacity, or means: his inability to make decisions. Origin of inability1400–50; late Middle English inabilite<Medieval Latin inhabilitās.See in-3, ability SYNONYMS FOR inabilityincapability, incapacity, impotence, incompetence. SEE SYNONYMS FOR inability ON THESAURUS.COM synonym study for inabilitySee disability. Words nearby inabilityIna, in a bad light, in a bad mood, in a bad way, in a big way, inability, in a bind, in a breeze, in absentia, inaccessible, inaccuracy Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for inabilityBut the inability to measure progress in the ISIS campaign is widespread. Pentagon Doesn’t Know How Many People It’s Killed in the ISIS War|Nancy A. Youssef|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST The inability to do anything besides binge-watch entire seasons on Netflix. History's Craziest Hangover Cures|Justin Jones|December 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST I recognize my inability to truly understand these events in the same context or view these events through exactly the same prism. Dr. Howard Fuller's Injustice Education|Campbell Brown|December 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST The scriptural Moses is defined by his frailties, his inability to act. Meet Moses the Swashbuckling Israelite|James Romm|December 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The second is strangled tongue disease, the English inability to express real feelings in conversation. Why Can’t Movies Capture Genius?|Clive Irving|December 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST What was Little Billee's physical explanation of his inability to love? Trilbyana|Joseph Benson Gilder & Jeannette Leonard Gilder Here again the Britishers show their inability to utilize the vehicle to the full of its possibilities. Europe Revised|Irvin S. Cobb Inability to provide by law that laborers on public works shall be paid prevailing rate of wages. Ethics|John Dewey and James Hayden Tufts Inability to compel payment of wages in cash; so that employer may pay in truck or scrip not redeemable in lawful money. Ethics|John Dewey and James Hayden Tufts She confessed her inability to form an estimate of such conduct. Beauchamp's Career, Complete|George Meredith
British Dictionary definitions for inability
nounlack of ability or means; incapacity Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to inabilityweakness, incompetence, lack, failure, shortcoming, ineptitude, inefficiency, impotence, powerlessness, necessity, unfitness, inadequacy, insufficiency, incapacity, ineffectiveness, frailty, inefficacy, disqualification, ineffectualness, incapability |