About The Word Incurable
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Incurable
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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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