Incurable
/ˌɪnˈkjʊəɹəbl/ adj, noun
adj, noun ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 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 a person whose disease is incurable wordnet
Adjective
- 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 Irremediable, incorrigible. figuratively, not-comparable
"an incurable romantic"
Adjective
- 1 unalterable in disposition or habits wordnet
- 2 incapable of being cured wordnet
Example
More examples"He contracted an incurable disease."
Etymology
From Old French incurable, from Late Latin incurabilis.