Incurable
[ɪn'kjʊərəb(ə)l] or [ɪn'kjʊrəbl]
Definition
(noun.) a person whose disease is incurable.
(adj.) unalterable in disposition or habits; 'an incurable optimist' .
(adj.) incapable of being cured; 'an incurable disease'; 'an incurable addiction to smoking' .
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Definition
(a.) Not capable of being cured; beyond the power of skill or medicine to remedy; as, an incurable disease.
(a.) Not admitting or capable of remedy or correction; irremediable; remediless; as, incurable evils.
(n.) A person diseased beyond cure.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Irremediable, incorrigible, remediless, hopeless, irreparable, irretrievable, irremedicable, past cure, past mending.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Irremediable, irredeemable
ANT:Tractable, removable, remediable
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Definition
adj. not admitting of cure or correction.—n. one beyond cure.—ns. Incur′ableness Incurabil′ity.—adv. Incur′ably.
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Examples
- I inquired, fancying that I had discovered in the incurable grief of bereavement, a key to that same aged lady's desperate ill-humour. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Disorders of the heart are incurable. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- But the water decomposed, and the incurable defect was still there. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- His father, Sir Felix Glyde, had suffered from his birth under a painful and incurable deformity, and had shunned all society from his earliest years. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- That peasant is more than a symbol of the privacy of human interest: he is a warning against the incurable romanticism which clings about the idea of a revolution. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Unfortunately, he did not reason in this way, but, feeling that he was miserable, hastily decided that such misery was incurable. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Well, perhaps,' said Sam, 'you bought houses, wich is delicate English for goin' mad; or took to buildin', wich is a medical term for bein' incurable. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- All her virtues and all her defects tended to make the blow incurable. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- She was sinking under a painful and incurable disease, and wished to recover him before she died. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- For ten years past I have suffered from an incurable internal complaint. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Blind to the constitutional defects that were incurable, she had her eyes wide open to the acquired habits that were susceptible of remedy. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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