uncapacious
uncapacious is the alternative form of incapacious.
Meaning of incapacious
Adjective
incapacious (comparative more incapacious, superlative most incapacious)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
| comparative | more uncapacious |
|---|---|
| superlative | most 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
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