insanable

English

Etymology

From Latin īnsānābilis. Compare Old French insanable. See in- (“not”) +‎ sanable.

Adjective

insanable (not comparable)

1. Not capable of being healed, incurable, irremediable.

   Synonym: sanable

   • 1921, Frank Moore Colby, The Margin of Hesitation, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, →OCLC, page 132:

     […] by the Cirrhæan spikes, by the boiled head of my own baby served in Egyptian vinegar, I curse the whole insanable cacoëthical cohort of scriptitating—

References

• “insanable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• nebalians

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /insaˈnable/ [ĩn.saˈna.β̞le]
• Rhymes: -able
• Syllabification: in‧sa‧na‧ble

Adjective

insanable m or f (masculine and feminine plural insanables)

1. insanable; uncurable

   Synonym: incurable

Derived terms

• insanablemente

Further reading

• “insanable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025