Happy and Incapable

Happy

Happy adjective - Meeting the requirements of a purpose or situation.
Usage example: the wine was a happy complement to such a fine meal

Incapable is an antonym for happy.

Nearby Words: happiness, happily

Incapable

Incapable adjective - Lacking qualities (as knowledge, skill, or ability) required to do a job.

Happy is an antonym for incapable.

Nearby Word: incapability

Both words in one sentence

  • Shirou has a spiritual disorder that causes him to place no value on his own life, and he is incapable of being happy except when he is helping others, so he tends to take suicidal risks at the slightest provocation, and generally do everything in his power to prevent other people from getting hurt.
  • In Happy Tree Friends, Splendid appears to be incapable of not doing this.
  • Break-Up/Make-Up Scenario During the episode, Amy admits to Rory that she only instigated their break-up in an ill-advised case of I Want My Beloved to Be Happy (she was incapable of having the children she knew he wanted, and chose to leave him so he could find someone who could make him a father).
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