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English
Etymology
From Old French incurable, from Late Latin incurabilis.
Pronunciation
Adjective
incurable (not comparable)
- 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.
- (figuratively) Irremediable, incorrigible.
an incurable romantic
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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)
- Turkish: dermansız (tr)
- Ukrainian: невиліко́вний (nevylikóvnyj)
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Noun
incurable (plural incurables)
- One who cannot be cured.
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Catalan
Etymology
From Late Latin incurābilis. First attested in 1460.
Adjective
incurable m or f (masculine and feminine plural incurables)
- incurable
- Synonym: inguarible
- Antonyms: curable, guarible
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French
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Late Latin incūrābilis. By surface analysis, in- + curable.
Pronunciation
Adjective
incurable (plural incurables)
- incurable
- Synonym: inguérissable
- Near-synonym: inopérable
- Antonyms: curable, guérissable, soignable
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Middle French
Adjective
incurable m or f (plural incurables)
- 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)
- incurable
- Antonym: curable
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