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 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.
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