incurable Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a person whose disease is incurable
  2. adjective incapable of being cured
    • an incurable disease
    • an incurable addiction to smoking
  3. adjective satellite unalterable in disposition or habits
    • an incurable optimist

WordNet


In*cur"a*ble adjective
Etymology
F. incurable, L. incurabilis. See In- not, and Curable.
Definitions
  1. Not capable of being cured; beyond the power of skill or medicine to remedy; as, an incurable disease.
    A scirrh is not absolutely incurable. Arbuthnot.
  2. Not admitting or capable of remedy or correction; irremediable; remediless; as, incurable evils.
    Rancorous and incurable hostility. Burke.
    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.
In*cur"a*ble noun
Definitions
  1. A person diseased beyond cure.

Webster 1913