An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
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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