Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not capacious; not spacious; of small content or compass; contracted.
- Incapable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not capacious; narrow; small; weak or foolish.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not
capacious ;narrow ,small ,weak , orfoolish .
Etymologies
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in- + capacious
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Examples
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As a result, two views of life, so to speak, were lodged in the corporal's incapacious head: on the one hand, he could not suppress his sense of injury against the German lieutenant who had thrown down 1,500 roubles and not a kopeck more; on the other, he did not dare forget that he had been initiated by the 'directing German representatives" into the whole German espionage system, including all its agents and banks.
My Life Trotsky, Leon 1930
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