incurable

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Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
18
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/ˌɪnˈkjʊəɹəbl/
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/ˌɪnˈkjʊəɹəbl/ · /ˌɪnˈkjʊɹəbl/ (US)

Definition of incurable

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (not-comparable)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.”
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adj

  1. (not-comparable)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.”
  2. (figuratively, not-comparable)Irremediable, incorrigible.
    “an incurable romantic”

noun

  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.”

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Etymology

From Old French incurable, from Late Latin incurabilis.

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