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[ in-kyoor-uh-buhl ] / ɪnˈkyʊər ə bəl / SEE SYNONYMS FOR incurable ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectivenot curable; that cannot be cured, remedied, or corrected: an incurable disease. not susceptible to change: his incurable pessimism. nouna person suffering from an incurable disease. Origin of incurableFirst recorded in 1300–50; Middle English word from Late Latin word incūrābilis.See in-3, curable SYNONYMS FOR incurable2 unflagging, incorrigible, relentless. SEE SYNONYMS FOR incurable ON THESAURUS.COM OTHER WORDS FROM incurablein·cur·a·bil·i·ty, in·cur·a·ble·ness, nounin·cur·a·bly, adverbWords nearby incurableincumbent on, incumber, incunable, incunabula, incur, incurable, incurious, incurrence, incurrent, incursion, incursive Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for incurableMengnan was told it was incurable, but that there was one medicine, Remicade, that might help. Will US Health Care Follow in China’s Bloody Footsteps?|Daniela Drake|September 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST Women Living with Incurable STDs, argues that women are more often shunned when it comes to an STI. The Silent Shame of HPV|Emily Shire|August 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST It is technically “incurable” but incurable in the same way that colds have no cure and sprained ankles have no cure. Suffering From An ‘Incurable Respiratory Disease’ This Winter? Relax. It’s Just RSV.|Kent Sepkowitz|January 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST Despite being told that her disease was incurable, Carr refused to accept that there was nothing she could do about it. So You Wanna Be Vegan? Start Here.|Alessandra Rafferty|February 23, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Political bias can be a fleeting sickness; profound ignorance, on the other hand, can be incurable. Ignorant America|Tunku Varadarajan|August 30, 2010|DAILY BEAST True, we still lay at the discretion of the traders; but that was the incurable weakness of our guilt. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. XII (of 25)|Robert Louis Stevenson He neglected his school lessons, and he was dismissed after a few years as an incurable scamp. The Chequers|James Runciman The doctors say her complaint is incurable, and she is not at all old. Doctor Luttrell's First Patient|Rosa Nouchette Carey I will complete this sketch of an incurable cannibal grandee with two incongruous traits. In the South Seas|Robert Louis Stevenson My wife and friends had been told by doctors there was no hope of my being any better, I was incurable. Ten Years and Ten Months in Lunatic Asylums in Different States|Moses Swan
British Dictionary definitions for incurable
adjective(esp of a disease) not curable; unresponsive to treatment nouna person having an incurable disease Derived forms of incurableincurability or incurableness, nounincurably, adverbCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to incurabledeadly, fatal, hopeless, inoperable, terminal, impossible, irreparable, serious, cureless, irremediable, immedicable, irrecoverable, out of time, remediless, unrecoverable Medical definitions for incurable
adj.Being such that a cure is impossible; not curable. The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. |