incurable

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English

Etymology

From Old French incurable, from Late Latin incurabilis.

Pronunciation

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

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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.

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Catalan

Etymology

From Late Latin incurābilis. First attested in 1460.

Pronunciation

Adjective

incurable m or f (masculine and feminine plural incurables)

  1. incurable
    Synonym: inguarible
    Antonyms: curable, guarible

References

  1. ^ incurable”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.

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French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Late Latin incūrābilis. By surface analysis, in- +‎ curable.

Pronunciation

Adjective

incurable (plural incurables)

  1. incurable
    Synonym: inguérissable
    Antonyms: curable, guérissable, soignable
    Near-synonym: inopérable

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Middle French

Adjective

incurable m or f (plural incurables)

  1. incurable

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin incūrābilis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /inkuˈɾable/
  • Rhymes: -able
  • Syllabification: in‧cu‧ra‧ble

Adjective

incurable m or f (masculine and feminine plural incurables)

  1. incurable
    Antonym: curable

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