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healless

healless adjective: incapable of being made whole or well; cureless; incurable; unhealable.

Adjective

healless (comparative more healless, superlative most healless)

  1. Incapable of being made whole or well; cureless; incurable; unhealable.
    • […] the hour that Wrung its idol from its core, and left it Bleeding with a healless wound, nor power On earth to staunch and stop the same; […]1842, John Snowden Hopkins, The poetical works of John Snowden Hopkins
    • A capacity for sin so healless that it makes its man despair from his heart of redemption - that is the true theological way to salvation.2010, Friedrich Ohly, Linda Archibald, George Steiner, The Damned and the Elect: Guilt in Western Culture

Forms of healless

comparativemore healless
superlativemost healless

Origin of healless

From Middle English heleles, equivalent to heal (“health, well-being”) + -less. Compare healful.

Questions about healless

What does healless mean?
Healless means incapable of being made whole or well; cureless; incurable; unhealable.
What part of speech is healless?
Healless is an adjective.

Words near healless in the dictionary

  1. healing over
  2. healing up
  3. healingly
  4. healingness
  5. healings
  6. healless
  7. healme
  8. healmes
  9. healo
  10. HEALPix
  11. heals

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