Incurable

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Incurable \In*cur"a*ble\, a. [F. incurable, L. incurabilis. See
     {In-} not, and {Curable}.]
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     1. Not capable of being cured; beyond the power of skill or
        medicine to remedy; as, an incurable disease.
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              A scirrhus is not absolutely incurable. --Arbuthnot.
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     2. Not admitting or capable of remedy or correction;
        irremediable; remediless; as, incurable evils.
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              Rancorous and incurable hostility.    --Burke.
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              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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Incurable \In*cur"a*ble\, n.
     A person diseased beyond cure.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  incurable
       adj 1: being such that a cure is impossible; "an incurable
              disease"; "an incurable addiction to smoking" [ant: {curable}]
       2: unalterable in disposition or habits; "an incurable
          optimist"
       n : a person whose disease is incurable

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  53 Moby Thesaurus words for "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