incurable
noun
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Pronunciation: /ˌɪnˈkjʊəɹəbl/ / /ˌɪnˈkjʊɹəbl/
adj
Etymology: From Old French incurable, from Late Latin incurabilis.
- 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
Etymology: From Old French incurable, from Late Latin incurabilis.
- 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.”