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incurable

Pronunciation: /ɪnˈkjʊərəb(ə)l/

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Definition of incurable

adjective

  • (of a sick person or a disease) not able to be cured: even when the sick are incurable they are never untreatable incurable diseases
  • (of a person or behaviour) unable to be changed:an incurable optimist

noun

  • a person who cannot be cured.

Derivatives

incurability

Pronunciation: /-ˈbɪlɪti/

noun

incurably

adverb
[as submodifier]:incurably ill patients

Origin:

Middle English: from Old French, or from late Latin incurabilis, from in- 'not' + curabilis (see curable)

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