INCURABLE

incurable

(adjective) unalterable in disposition or habits; “an incurable optimist”

incurable

(adjective) incapable of being cured; “an incurable disease”; “an incurable addiction to smoking”

incurable

(noun) a person whose disease is incurable

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

incurable (not comparable)

Of an illness, condition, etc, that is unable to be cured; healless.

Synonyms

• uncurable

Antonyms

• curable

Noun

incurable (plural incurables)

One who cannot be cured.

Anagrams

• binuclear

Source: Wiktionary


In*cur"a*ble, a. Etym: [F. incurable, L. incurabilis. See In- not, and Curable.]

1. Not capable of being cured; beyond the power of skill or medicine to remedy; as, an incurable disease. A scirrh is not absolutely incurable. Arbuthnot.

2. Not admitting or capable of remedy or correction; irremediable; remediless; as, incurable evils. Rancorous and incurable hostility. Burke. They were laboring under a profound, and, as it might have seemed, an almost incurable ignorance. Sir J. Stephen.

Syn.

– Irremediable; remediless; irrecoverable; irretrievable; irreparable; hopeless.

In*cur"a*ble, n.

Definition: A person diseased beyond cure.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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