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uncapacious

uncapacious is the alternative form of incapacious.

Meaning of incapacious

Adjective

incapacious (comparative more incapacious, superlative most incapacious)

  1. Small; narrow; cramped; unable to hold or allow the passage of very much.
    • It is a contrast, to be contemplated with grateful emotions, that in a place where a century ago twenty-five families gathered in an incapacious wooden edifice to lift their hearts and voices to God , and to praise him in the forms of the Liturgy , there are now to be found at least a thousand...1865, Eben Edwards Beardsley, The History of the Episcopal Church in Connecticut, page 199
  2. Not capable; having limited abilities; weak, incompetent, and/or foolish.
    • Can art be so dim-sighted, learnèd sir? I did not think her so incapacious.1617, Thomas Middleton, A Fayre Quarrell
  3. Small; limited, modest, lacking grandeur or nobility.
    • yet, inasmuch as he is capable of understanding the vast disproportions of time and eternity, of a mortal flesh and an immortal spirit, how preposterous a course were it and unworthy of a man, yea, how dishonourable and reproachful to his Maker, should he prefer the momentary pleasures of narrow...1668, John Howe, The Blessedness of the Righteous
  4. Insufficient.
    • […] by buzzing them into popular eares and capaci- ties, incapacious of them, unable to comprehend them.1625, Richard Montagu, Appello Caesarem: A just Appeale from two Unjust Informers, page 80
  5. Incapacitating.
    • […] Agamben insists, one can still see even in darkness where what one sees is the colour of incapacity. […] Deleuzian obscurity is, like Agamben's incapacious darkness, a darkness that allows one to see.2013, William Watkin, Agamben and Indifference: A Critical Overview, page 147

Forms of uncapacious

comparativemore uncapacious
superlativemost uncapacious

Origin of uncapacious

From un- + capacious.

Questions about uncapacious

What is uncapacious the alternative form of?
Uncapacious is the alternative form of incapacious.

Words near uncapacious in the dictionary

  1. uncanvassed
  2. uncanyoned
  3. uncap
  4. uncapable
  5. uncapableness
  6. uncapacious
  7. uncapacitated
  8. uncapacity
  9. uncaparisoned
  10. uncape
  11. uncaped

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