incurable

English

Etymology

From Old French incurable, from Late Latin incurabilis.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌɪnˈkjʊəɹəbl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌɪnˈkjʊɹəbl/

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Adjective

incurable (not comparable)

1. Of an illness, condition, etc, that is unable to be cured; healless.
   • 1854, James Stephen, On Desultory and Systematic Reading:

     They were labouring under a profound, and, as it might have seemed, an almost incurable ignorance.

2. (figuratively) Irremediable, incorrigible.

   an incurable romantic

Synonyms

• uncurable

Antonyms

• curable

Derived terms

• incurableness
• incurably
• radioincurable

Related terms

• incurability
• terminal

Translations

unable to be cured

Arabic: لَا رَجَاء مِن شِفَائِه (lā rajāʔ min šifāʔih) Armenian: անբուժելի (hy) (anbuželi) Belarusian: невыле́чны (njevyljéčny) Bulgarian: неизлечи́м (bg) (neizlečím) Catalan: incurable (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 醫不好的 / 医不好的 (yī bùhǎo de), 不可救藥的 / 不可救药的 (zh) (bùkě jiùyào de) Czech: nevyléčitelný Danish: uhelbredelig (da) Dutch: ongeneeslijk (nl) Finnish: parantumaton (fi) French: incurable (fr) German: unheilbar (de) Greek: ανίατος (el) (aníatos) Ancient: ἀνίατος (aníatos) Hungarian: gyógyíthatatlan (hu) Italian: incurabile (it) Japanese: 不治の (ja) (ふ​じの, fuji no, ふちの, fuchi no), 治らない (ja) (なおらない, naoranai) Korean: 불치의 (bulchi-ui), 치유할 수 없다 (chiyuhal su eopda) Latin: insanabilis, desperatus Macedonian: неизлечив (neizlečiv) Norwegian: Bokmål: uhelbredelig Ottoman Turkish: چاره‌سز (çaresiz), درمانسز (dermansız), علاجسز (ʼilacsız) Plautdietsch: onheelboa Polish: nieuleczalny (pl) Portuguese: incurável (pt) Romanian: incurabil (ro) Russian: неизлечи́мый (ru) (neizlečímyj) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: неизлѐчив Roman: neizlèčiv Slovak: nevyliečiteľný Slovene: neozdravljiv Spanish: incurable (es) Swedish: obotlig (sv) Thai: รักษาไม่หาย Turkish: dermansız (tr) Ukrainian: невиліко́вний (nevylikóvnyj)

figuratively: irremediable, incorrigible — see also irremediable,‎ incorrigible

Hungarian: javíthatatlan (hu), menthetetlen (hu), megrögzött (hu) Ottoman Turkish: چاره‌سز (çaresiz), درمانسز (dermansız), علاجسز (ʼilacsız) Polish: nieuleczalny (pl) Spanish: empedernido (es), de a tiro, de al tiro, dealtiro, deatiro, dialtiro, diatiro

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Noun

incurable (plural incurables)

1. One who cannot be cured.
   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Phantom Rickshaw”, in The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales, Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler and Co., page 7:

     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.

Anagrams

• binuclear