Incurable

//ˌɪnˈkjʊəɹəbl// adj, noun

adj, noun ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who cannot be cured.

    "Heatherlegh, the Doctor, kept, in addition to his regular practice, a hospital on his private account — an arrangement of loose-boxes for Incurables, his friends called it — but it was really a sort of fitting-up shed for craft that had been damaged by stress of weather."

  2. 2
    a person whose disease is incurable wordnet
Adjective
  1. 1
    Of an illness, condition, etc, that is unable to be cured; healless. not-comparable

    "They were labouring under a profound, and, as it might have seemed, an almost incurable ignorance."

  2. 2
    Irremediable, incorrigible. figuratively, not-comparable

    "an incurable romantic"

Adjective
  1. 1
    unalterable in disposition or habits wordnet
  2. 2
    incapable of being cured wordnet

Synonyms

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apoplecticarthriticbeyond recallbeyond remedycaseconsumptive

Example

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"He contracted an incurable disease."

Etymology

From Old French incurable, from Late Latin incurabilis.

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