What is another word for unable?
482 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ ʌnˈe͡ɪbə͡l], [ ʌnˈeɪbəl], [ ʌ_n_ˈeɪ_b_əl]
Unable is a common word that describes a lack of ability or capacity to do something. However, there are numerous synonyms available to convey the same meaning, including incapacity, ineptitude, incompetence, powerlessness, helplessness, incapability, inadequacy, insufficiency, weakness, disability, and incapacity. Each of these words is used to describe a person or a situation where the person is unable to perform a particular task. For instance, a person with a disability may have an inability to walk, while a person with incompetence may have trouble performing a particular task. Ultimately, these synonyms all convey the same idea of a person facing a particular challenge without the ability to undertake it.
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Similar words for unable:
- all (adjective)
- clumsy (adjective)
- helpless (adjective)
- inapt (adjective)
- incapable (adjective)
- ineffective (adjective)
- ineffective/ineffectual (adjective)
- ineffectual (adjective)
- inefficacious (adjective)
- not having talent, skill (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- unfit (adjective)
- unskilled (adjective)
- incapable (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- other synonyms
- dependent
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Unable:
adj.
• all (adjective) • clumsy (adjective)- in expert,
- un-gainly,
- most clownish,
- un coordinated,
- more illshaped,
- in experienced,
- in-competent,
- un-wieldier,
- more blunderous,
- more hamhanded,
- un-easiest,
- un-handiest,
- un tactful,
- more ill shaped,
- most blunderous,
- most ill shaped,
- un-coordinated,
- un skillful,
- un-wieldiest,
- un-handy,
- un handiest,
- un dexterous,
- more ham handed,
- illshaped,
- in-experienced,
- un-gainlier,
- more untalented,
- most hamhanded,
- un easier,
- more stumbling,
- most blundering,
- un-ablest,
- un gainliest,
- heavy handed,
- ill shaped,
- more undexterous,
- ham-handed,
- more gawkish,
- most ill-shaped,
- hamhanded,
- most gawkish,
- splayer,
- most undexterous,
- splayest,
- more blundering,
- un ablest,
- un couth,
- in-elegant,
- un adept,
- un handy,
- un-skillful,
- un talented,
- in-expert,
- un-dexterous,
- more ham-handed,
- more lubberly,
- un easy,
- un-abler,
- most lubberly,
- unhandier,
- un wieldier,
- un-easier,
- un gainly,
- more clownish,
- un easiest,
- in elegant,
- ponderous,
- un-adept,
- stumbling,
- uneasy,
- un-couth,
- un-gainliest,
- un-easy,
- most untalented,
- un-talented,
- heavyhanded,
- lumpish,
- more butterfingered,
- un handier,
- most ham-handed,
- ham handed,
- most butterfingered,
- more ill-shaped,
- un wieldiest,
- most stumbling,
- most ham handed,
- unhandiest,
- most illshaped,
- oafish,
- un gainlier,
- more unadept,
- in competent,
- un-wieldy,
- un wieldy,
- un-tactful,
- un abler,
- un-handier,
- most unadept.
- unprotected,
- basket-case,
- up creek without paddle,
- in firm,
- inefficient,
- with hands tied,
- tapped out.
- in aptest,
- un-meet,
- illsuited,
- un facile,
- more inadept,
- in-apposite,
- in-felicitous,
- in apposite,
- more ill fitted,
- un proficient,
- most inapposite,
- most inadept,
- ill suited,
- un timelier,
- in-appropriate,
- in-congruous,
- more ill-adapted,
- in-sipid,
- un-suited,
- in appropriate,
- Unmeet,
- un meeter,
- in adept,
- more unproficient,
- un-proficient,
- unmeetest,
- un meet,
- more ill-fitted,
- most unproficient,
- un timely,
- most ill-adapted,
- in congruous,
- most ill fitted,
- most unfacile,
- un meetest,
- un-meetest,
- illfitted,
- illadapted,
- ill fitted,
- in-apter,
- unmeeter,
- un-facile,
- more ill adapted,
- in-aptest,
- un suitable,
- in sipid,
- un suited,
- most ill adapted,
- ill adapted,
- un-meeter,
- un-timeliest,
- un-suitable,
- more inapposite,
- un-timely,
- most ill-fitted,
- in-adept,
- un-timelier,
- in felicitous,
- in apter,
- un timeliest,
- most illadapted,
- more illadapted,
- most illfitted,
- more illfitted,
- more unfacile.
- in capable,
- un-qualified,
- in proficient,
- more inproficient,
- most butterfingers,
- dis qualified,
- not to,
- in adequate,
- dis-qualified,
- insufficient,
- un qualified,
- in-sufficient,
- in-eligible,
- un-equipped,
- more unequipped,
- in sufficient,
- in eligible,
- un cool,
- most disqualified,
- most uncool,
- un equipped,
- more disqualified,
- in-capable,
- more butterfingers,
- un-cool,
- in-adequate,
- losing,
- most unequipped,
- most inproficient,
- more uncool,
- in-proficient.
- more emasculate,
- more slack spined,
- most slackspined,
- more slackspined,
- slack spined,
- most emasculate,
- un-available,
- more slack-spined,
- in-effective,
- un available,
- slackspined,
- most slack-spined,
- most slack spined,
- in effective,
- slack-spined.
- de-feasible,
- un productive,
- in-vertebrate,
- in-operative,
- most invertebrate,
- anti-climactic,
- in-decisive,
- in operative,
- null and void,
- de feasible,
- un-fruitful,
- un fruitful,
- in decisive,
- most forceless,
- in vertebrate,
- most anticlimactic,
- more anticlimactic,
- un successful,
- more defeasible,
- most defeasible,
- un-availing,
- more neutralized,
- un availing,
- in-nocuous,
- un profitable,
- more ineffective,
- more invertebrate,
- null void,
- un-productive,
- un-successful,
- un-profitable,
- most neutralized,
- in nocuous,
- more forceless,
- anti climactic,
- invertebrate.
- sidelined,
- can't cut it,
- can't make the grade,
- can't hack it,
- out of commission,
- no can do,
- hog-tied.
- unequipped,
- splay,
- untalented,
- defeasible,
- Unhandy,
- butterfingered,
- no go,
- blunderous,
- ill-fitted,
- unadept,
- not equal to,
- no way,
- inapposite,
- clumsy,
- not up to,
- uncool,
- unproficient,
- inefficacious,
- inapt,
- ill-shaped,
- Butter-fingered,
- gawkish,
- unfitted,
- ill-adapted,
- inproficient,
- undexterous,
- not effective,
- inadept,
- anticlimactic,
- all thumbs,
- ill-equipped,
- unfit,
- not cut out for,
- unfacile,
- clownish,
- forceless,
- no good,
- lubberly.
- butter fingered,
- more butter fingered,
- more amateur,
- most ill-equipped,
- un trained,
- un apter,
- in capacitated,
- un practiced,
- un-aptest,
- most unfitted,
- un fitted,
- most amateur,
- in-capacitated,
- most butter fingered,
- more ill-equipped,
- most ill equipped,
- ill equipped,
- most illequipped,
- unpracticed,
- more ill equipped,
- most butter-fingered,
- more unfitted,
- un-fit,
- un-apter,
- un aptest,
- un fit,
- un-fitted,
- un-practiced,
- more illequipped,
- un-prepared,
- more butter-fingered,
- un prepared,
- illequipped,
- un-trained.
n.
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- ability.
Other synonyms:
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- incapable of.
- silent,
- thunderstruck,
- awestruck,
- unadapted,
- otiose,
- disable,
- fainthearted,
- out of fashion,
- Open-mouthed,
- aghast,
- in debt,
- all agog,
- unendowed,
- uneffective,
- moonstruck,
- under hatches,
- unskillful,
- minus,
- breathless,
- hammer,
- futile,
- unskilful,
- be doomed,
- inferior,
- incomplete,
- behindhand,
- talentless,
- Planet-struck,
- haw,
- infirm,
- out of countenance,
- hum and haw,
- insolvent,
- disabled,
- deficient,
- Pigeon-hearted,
- cowardly,
- milksop,
- Weak-minded,
- dumb,
- maladroit,
- needy,
- at a discount,
- inexpert,
- in bad repute,
- timid,
- falter,
- stammer,
- in for,
- in the background,
- available,
- embarrassed,
- useless,
- straitened,
- non-performing,
- soft,
- Dough-faced,
- in arrears,
- Balbutiate,
- poor,
- flimsy,
- bungling,
- defective,
- crippled,
- worthless,
- overcome,
- spellbound,
- unequal,
- be destined,
- sheer,
- faulty,
- disgraced,
- fruitless,
- unequal to,
- involved,
- Balbucinate,
- awkward,
- out of favor,
- have no choice,
- easy going,
- Feeble-minded,
- hesitate,
- Weak-hearted,
- surprised,
- Unapt,
- non-paying,
- empty,
- agape,
- armless,
- necessitous,
- in the shade,
- unadjusted,
- facile,
- stutter,
- Milk-livered,
- Smock-faced,
- in arrear,
- disqualified,
- Ungifted,
- pinched,
- unwilling,
- chickenhearted,
- maladjusted,
- wimpy,
- Beggared,
- gauche,
- wimpish,
- downtrodden,
- Floundering,
- white-livered,
- in want,
- ineligible,
- improper,
- be one's fate,
- frail,
- inadmissible,
- pliant,
- unavailing,
- under a cloud,
- distressed,
- lily-livered.
How to use "Unable" in context?
When we think of the word 'unable,' what do we typically imagine? For many people, 'unable' is synonymous with 'impossible.' However, this isn't always the case. In fact, there are occasions when something may be 'unable' but still possible.
Paraphrases for Unable:
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Equivalence
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Adjective
impossible.
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Noun, plural
impossible.
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Adjective
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Forward Entailment
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Adjective
able.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
difficult, helpless, impotent, impracticable, inadequate, indistinguishable, inept, insufficient, possible, unacceptable, unattainable, unavailable, unfeasible, unfit, unlikely, unsuccessful, unsuitable, unwilling.
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Noun, plural
Abilities, Disabilities, seniors, attempts, limitations, failures, shortcomings, failings.
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Verb, 3rd person singular present
fails.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
capable, incapacitated, powerless.
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Adjective
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