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incurable en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ˌɪnˈkjʊɹəbl/ (US)
  • audio
  • /ˌɪnˈkjʊəɹəbl/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From Old French incurable, from Late Latin incurabilis.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Of an illness, condition, etc, that is unable to be cured; healless.
    • They were labouring under a profound, and, as it might have seemed, an almost incurable ignorance. 1854, James Stephen, On Desultory and Systematic Reading:
  2. (figuratively, not-comparable) Irremediable, incorrigible.
    • an incurable romantic

Antonyms

curable

Deriveds

incurably · radioincurable · incurableness

Relateds

terminal · incurability

Synonyms

uncurable

Translations (58)

fr incurable (unable to be cured) · be невыле́чны (unable to be cured) · cmn 不可救藥的 /不可救药的 (unable to be cured) · grc ἀνίατος (unable to be cured) · mr असाध्य (unable to be cured) · ja 不治の (unable to be cured) · hy անբուժելի (unable to be cured) · es de al tiro (figuratively: irremediable, incorrigible) · es diatiro (figuratively: irremediable, incorrigible) · ru неизлечи́мый (unable to be cured) · sl neozdravljiv (unable to be cured) · ko 치유할 수 없다 (unable to be cured) · ota علاجسز (unable to be cured) · sv obotlig (unable to be cured) · uk невиліко́вний (unable to be cured) · bg неизлечи́м (unable to be cured) · tr dermansız (unable to be cured) · nl ongeneeslijk (unable to be cured) · pl nieuleczalny (unable to be cured) · cs nevyléčitelný (unable to be cured) · nb uhelbredelig (unable to be cured) · es incurable (unable to be cured) · ota علاجسز (figuratively: irremediable, incorrigible) · sh неизлѐчив (unable to be cured) · es dialtiro (figuratively: irremediable, incorrigible) · hu menthetetlen (figuratively: irremediable, incorrigible) · hu javíthatatlan (figuratively: irremediable, incorrigible) · ja 治らない (unable to be cured) · es empedernido (figuratively: irremediable, incorrigible) · ro incurabil (unable to be cured) · ar لَا رَجَاء مِن شِفَائِه (unable to be cured) · fi parantumaton (unable to be cured) · ota چارهسز (figuratively: irremediable, incorrigible) · hu megrögzött (figuratively: irremediable, incorrigible) · la desperatus (unable to be cured) · it incurabile (unable to be cured) · da uhelbredelig (unable to be cured) · ko 불치의 (unable to be cured) · es de a tiro (figuratively: irremediable, incorrigible) · ca incurable (unable to be cured) · hi असाध्य (unable to be cured) · el ανίατος (unable to be cured) · ota درمانسز (unable to be cured) · pl nieuleczalny (figuratively: irremediable, incorrigible) · ota چارهسز (unable to be cured) · pt incurável (unable to be cured) · ota درمانسز (figuratively: irremediable, incorrigible) · sk nevyliečiteľný (unable to be cured) · pdt onheelboa (unable to be cured) · th รักษาไม่หาย (unable to be cured) · cmn 醫不好的 /医不好的 (unable to be cured) · mk неизлечив (unable to be cured) · es deatiro (figuratively: irremediable, incorrigible) · sh neizlèčiv (unable to be cured) · la insanabilis (unable to be cured) · es dealtiro (figuratively: irremediable, incorrigible) · hu gyógyíthatatlan (unable to be cured) · de unheilbar (unable to be cured)

incurable en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˌɪnˈkjʊɹəbl/ (US)
  • audio
  • /ˌɪnˈkjʊəɹəbl/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From Old French incurable, from Late Latin incurabilis.

Meanings

  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. 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Phantom Rickshaw”, in The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales, Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler and Co., page 7:

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