incurable
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incurable
- /ˌɪnˈkjʊəɹəbl/ UK
- /ˌɪnˈkjʊɹəbl/ US
Where it comes from
From Old French incurable, from Late Latin incurabilis.
adjective
- 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.
- Irremediable, incorrigible. an incurable romantic
noun incurables
- 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.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: unalterable, inalterable, hopeless, irreparable, untreatable, intractable, irreversible, insurmountable, unresolved, persistent, cure, bachelor, terminal, healless, immedicable, unrecuring
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adj unable to be cured
| Español | incurable |
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| 한국어 | 불치의 bulchi-ui, 치유할 수 없다 chiyuhal su eopda |
| 日本語 | 不治の, 治らない naoranai |
| 中文 | 醫不好的 /医不好的 yī bùhǎo de, 不可救藥的 /不可救药的 bùkě jiùyào de |
| हिन्दी | असाध्य asādhya |
| Português | incurável |
| Français | incurable |
| Deutsch | unheilbar |
| Italiano | incurabile |
| Ελληνικά | ανίατος aníatos |
| Română | incurabil |
| Русский | неизлечи́мый neizlečímyj |
| العربية | لَا رَجَاء مِن شِفَائِه lā rajāʔ min šifāʔih |
adj figuratively: irremediable, incorrigible
| Español | empedernido, de a tiro, de al tiro, dealtiro, deatiro, dialtiro |
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title = {incurable},
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