'Incurable' definitions:
Definition of 'incurable'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Incapable of being cured; "an incurable disease"; "an incurable addiction to smoking" [ant: curable]
adjective
Unalterable in disposition or habits; "an incurable optimist"
noun
A person whose disease is incurable
Definition of 'Incurable'
From: GCIDE
- Incurable \In*cur"a*ble\, a. [F. incurable, L. incurabilis. See In- not, and Curable.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. Not capable of being cured; beyond the power of skill or medicine to remedy; as, an incurable disease. [1913 Webster]
- A scirrhus is not absolutely incurable. --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Not admitting or capable of remedy or correction; irremediable; remediless; as, incurable evils. [1913 Webster]
- Rancorous and incurable hostility. --Burke. [1913 Webster]
- They were laboring under a profound, and, as it might have seemed, an almost incurable ignorance. --Sir J. Stephen.
- Syn: Irremediable; remediless; irrecoverable; irretrievable; irreparable; hopeless. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Incurable'
From: GCIDE
- Incurable \In*cur"a*ble\, n. A person diseased beyond cure. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'incurable'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- apoplectic,
- arthritic,
- beyond recall,
- beyond remedy,
- case,
- consumptive,
- cureless,
- dyspeptic,
- epileptic,
- fatal,
- gone,
- habitual,
- hopeless,
- immedicable,
- impossible,
- incorrigible,
- inoperable,
- inpatient,
- invalid,
- inveterate,
- irreclaimable,
- irrecoverable,
- irredeemable,
- irreformable,
- irremediable,
- irreparable,
- irretrievable,
- irreversible,
- irrevocable,
- lost,
- outpatient,
- past hope,
- past praying for,
- patient,
- relentless,
- remediless,
- rheumatic,
- ruined,
- shut-in,
- sick person,
- spastic,
- sufferer,
- terminal,
- terminal case,
- the sick,
- uncorrectable,
- undone,
- unflagging,
- unmitigable,
- unrelievable,
- unsalvable,
- unsalvageable,
- valetudinarian