Usually means: Lacking ability, power, or means.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word unable:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. unable: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. unable: Merriam-Webster
  3. unable: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. unable: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. unable: Collins English Dictionary
  6. unable: Vocabulary.com
  7. Unable, unable: Wordnik
  8. unable: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. unable: Wiktionary
  10. unable: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. unable: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. unable: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. unable: Dictionary.com
  14. unable (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. unable: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Unable: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Unable: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. unable: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. unable: Rhymezone
  20. unable: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. unable: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. unable: FreeDictionary.org
  23. unable: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. unable: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. unable: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  2. unable: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. unable: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (unable)

▸ adjective:  Not able; lacking a certain ability.
▸ verb:  (transitive, nonstandard) To render unable; to disable.

Similar:
incapable, ineffectual, ineffective, impotent, not able, unwilling, able, cannot, inability, attempt, more...

Opposite:
able, capable, competent, qualified, proficient

Types:
unable to, unable to do, unable to be, unable to see, unable to hear, unable to smell, more...

Phrases:
unable to, unable to help, unable to hear think, be unable to believe ears, be unable to believe eyes, more...

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Similar:
incapable, ineffectual, ineffective, impotent, not able, unwilling, able, cannot, inability, attempt, more...

Opposite:
able, capable, competent, qualified, proficient

Types:
unable to, unable to do, unable to be, unable to see, unable to hear, unable to smell, more...

Phrases:
unable to, unable to help, unable to hear think, be unable to believe ears, be unable to believe eyes, been unable to believe ears, been unable to believe eyes, being unable to believe ears, more...

Colors:
    gray,     black,     white,     beige,     taupe, more...



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