Hypertext Webster Gateway: "incurable"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Incurable \In*cur"a*ble\, n.
A person diseased beyond cure.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Incurable \In*cur"a*ble\, a. [F. incurable, L. incurabilis. See
{In-} not, and {Curable}.]
1. Not capable of being cured; beyond the power of skill or
medicine to remedy; as, an incurable disease.
A scirrh is not absolutely incurable. --Arbuthnot.
2. Not admitting or capable of remedy or correction;
irremediable; remediless; as, incurable evils.
Rancorous and incurable hostility. --Burke.
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
incurable
adj 1: being such that a cure is impossible; "an incurable
disease"; "an incurable addiction to smoking" [ant: {curable}]
2: without hope of cure; "incurable cancer"
3: unalterable in disposition or habits; "an incurable
optimist"
n : a person whose disease is incurable
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