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incurable Definition

in·cur·able (in kyo̵or′ə bəl)

adjective

not curable; that cannot be remedied or corrected

Etymology: OFr < LL incurabilis

noun

a person having an incurable disease or disorder

incurable Related Forms

in·cur′·abil′·ity noun in·cur′·ably adverb

incurable Synonyms

incurable

modif.

fatal, serious, hopeless; see deadly 1, hopeless 2.

incurable Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • consider: I cured myself of psoriasis, a skin condition usually considered incurable, after suffering with it for 29 years.
  • have: The husband or male partner has an incurable sexually transmitted disease such as HIV.
  • prove: Some will prove incurable, some will have to come back for further treatment, and so on.

Used with adjective complement

  • seem: His embarrassing new obsession seems incurable, despite all his parents efforts.
  • remain: Even so, at the start of the twenty-first century, IBD still remains incurable.
  • become: Some strains of tuberculosis - Africa's other great killer - have become virtually incurable.

Modifies a noun

  • optimist: Doctor Snuggles is a cuddly little man, an incurable optimist who longs to make the world a better place.
  • disease: However, the incurable diseases of the Red Army had their effect.
  • illness: Stem cell research can offer a cure for your incurable illness.
  • cancer: People with incurable cancer can live good quality lives for long times.
  • condition: Hemophilia; - an incurable medical condition in which the blood is unable to clot properly.
  • disorder: Striker Gareth Seddon has been told he has an incurable blood disorder.

Modifying Another Word

  • currently: EB is currently incurable, affecting children from birth.
  • apparently: We asked ourselves whether the time had not come for my wife to be delivered from her agonizing and apparently incurable headaches?
  • now: Situations can change, medical advances are being made all the time, illness that is now incurable may become curable.
  • otherwise: Gene therapy shows promise for curing otherwise incurable diseases.
  • largely: The major killers today are heart and vascular disease, chronic degenerative diseases and cancer, largely incurable and increasing in incidence.
  • previously: Perhaps its the result - cure for previously incurable disease - or the method, or just the way it's written.

Preposition: in

animal: It is incurable in animals and, so far, BSE has killed 180 people, mostly in Britain.