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Incurable

Incurable Meaning & Definition
Incurable Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Incurable?

[n] a person whose disease is incurable
[adj] unalterable in disposition or habits; "an incurable optimist"
[adj] being such that a cure is impossible; "an incurable disease"; "an incurable addiction to smoking"
[adj] without hope of cure; "incurable cancer"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Incurable: hopeless | inalterable | unalterable

Related Terms | Find terms related to Incurable: apoplectic | arthritic | beyond recall | beyond remedy | case | consumptive | cureless | dyspeptic | epileptic | fatal | gone | habitual | hopeless | immedicable | impossible | incorrigible | inoperable | inpatient | invalid | inveterate | irreclaimable | irrecoverable | irredeemable | irreformable | irremediable | irreparable | irretrievable | irreversible | irrevocable | lost | outpatient | past hope | past praying for | patient | relentless | remediless | rheumatic | ruined | shut-in | sick person | spastic | sufferer | terminal | terminal case | the sick | uncorrectable | undone | unflagging | unmitigable | unrelievable | unsalvable | unsalvageable | valetudinarian

See Also | diseased person | sick person | sufferer

Incurable In Webster's Dictionary

\In*cur"a*ble\, a. [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. A person diseased beyond cure.

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