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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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