incurable

adj, noun — 3 senses

incurable

adj

UK /ˌɪnˈkjʊəɹəbl/ · US /ˌɪnˈkjʊɹəbl/

Etymology From Old French incurable, from Late Latin incurabilis.

1

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 Irremediable, incorrigible.

an incurable romantic

Synonyms: uncurable
Antonyms: curable
Derived terms: incurableness, incurably, radioincurable
Related terms: incurability, terminal

incurable

noun

Etymology From Old French incurable, from Late Latin incurabilis.

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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