adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
quite
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She remained rigidly immobile, suddenly quite incapable of moving anyway.
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By their very nature they are quite incapable of any such thing.
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In fact, every inch of her was quite incapable of movement.
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The latter they were quite incapable of pronouncing correctly, even when sober.
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It meant she could answer without thinking, which was an infinite mercy, for suddenly she was quite incapable of thinking.
totally
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Flitting from one flower to the next, whichever looked the most tempting, but totally incapable of feeling any real passion.
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George Cunningham, who have already proved themselves totally incapable of any future viability by already losing by an embarrassing margin.
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The blood rushed to her head, making her dizzy and totally incapable of finding anything snappy to retort.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But it certainly undermines the idea that gay men, as men, are biologically incapable of restraint.
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Marge was incapable of sensing anything, Tom thought.
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Must we then conclude that the Zande are in these terms irrational, incapable of rational, cause-and-effect reasoning?
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She was incoherent and incapable of unassisted movement.
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Some analysts express concern that the new systems will be less secure and incapable of doing donkey work like batch processing.
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The schools, in fact, seemed almost incapable of self-governance or self-reform.
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Utterly without designs, equipment, opportunities, he felt incapable of despair.