insanable

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English

Etymology

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

Adjective

insanable (comparative more insanable, superlative most insanable)

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

Adjective

insanable m or f (masculine and feminine plural insanables)

insanable; uncurable

Derived terms

insanablemente

Further reading

“insanable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16

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