Incurable Definition

ĭn-kyo͝orə-bəl
adjective
Not curable; that cannot be remedied or corrected.
Webster's New World
Incapable of being altered, as in disposition or habits.
An incurable optimist; an incurable smoker.
American Heritage Medicine

Of an illness, condition, etc, that is unable to be cured; healless.

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noun
A person having an incurable disease or disorder.
Webster's New World
One who cannot be cured.
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Other Word Forms of Incurable

Noun

Singular:
incurable
Plural:
incurables

Origin of Incurable

  • From Old French incurable, from Late Latin incurabilis

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Incurable Sentence Examples

  • Herod was stricken with an incurable disease.

  • The incessant anxiety and strain of some is a well-nigh incurable form of disease.

  • The worst enemy of the P Y Greeks was their own incurable spirit of faction; in the very crisis of their fate, during the siege of Missolonghi, rival presidents and rival assemblies struggled for supremacy, and a third civil war had only been prevented by the arrival of Cochrane and Church.

  • The council of Constance then deposed him, as a perjurer, an incurable schismatic and a heretic (26th July 1417), After struggling with the popes of Rome, Urban VI., Boniface IX., Innocent VII.

  • On the 11th of March 1868 Talal, smitten with an incurable malady, fell by his own hand and was succeeded by his brother Matab; after a brief reign he was murdered by his nephews, the elder of whom, Bandar, became amir.

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