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cureless

cureless adjective: lacking a cure; incurable.

Adjective

cureless (comparative more cureless, superlative most cureless)

  1. Lacking a cure; incurable.
    • Matter of doubt and dread suspitious, / That doth with curelesse care consume the hart […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
    • O hatefull, vaporous, and foggy night, / Since thou art guilty of my cureleſſe crime: / Muſter thy miſts to meete the Eaſterne light, / Make vvar againſt proportion'd courſe of time.1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC, signature F3, verso

Forms of cureless

comparativemore cureless
superlativemost cureless

Origin of cureless

From cure + -less.

Words formed from cureless

Questions about cureless

What does cureless mean?
Cureless means lacking a cure; incurable.
What part of speech is cureless?
Cureless is an adjective.

Words near cureless in the dictionary

  1. cured cancer
  2. cured down
  3. cured up
  4. Curehead
  5. Cureheads
  6. cureless
  7. curelessly
  8. curelessness
  9. Curenton
  10. Curentons
  11. Curepto

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