Sorry, no online dictionaries contain the exact phrase was not able to.
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1. unable
 2. incapable
3. impossible
4. not capable
5. adjective
6. cannot
7. helpless
8. ill-suited
9. impracticable
10. impractical
 11. imprenable
12. inable
13. inaccessible
14. inhabile
15. intolerant
16. invaluable
17. mission impossible
18. out of the question
19. unabled
20. unachievable
 21. unavailable
22. uncapable
23. unhabitable
24. unserviceable
25. unsuited
26. unsurmountable
27. untolerable
28. unvisitable
29. unwarrantable
30. unwieldly
 31. us
32. apodictic
33. bum
34. disallowable
35. dunno
36. exhaustless
37. immemorable

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