incurable — English Dictionary

Adjective

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

   Usage

   • not-comparable

   Examples

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

2. Irremediable, incorrigible.

   Usage

   • Figurative
   • not-comparable

   Examples

   an incurable romantic

Noun

1. One who cannot be cured.

   Examples

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   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.

Adjective

1. incapable of being cured

   Antonyms

   curable

   Examples

   an incurable disease

   an incurable addiction to smoking

2. unalterable in disposition or habits

   Examples

   an incurable optimist

Noun

1. a person whose disease is incurable

   Broader terms

   sick persondiseased personsufferer