incurable
UK/ˌɪnˈkjʊəɹəbl/US/ˌɪnˈkjʊɹəbl/
incurable adjective: of an illness, condition, etc, that is unable to be cured; healless.
Adjective
incurable (not comparable)
- Of an illness, condition, etc, that is unable to be cured; healless.
- They were labouring under a profound, and, as it might have seemed, an almost incurable ignorance.1854, James Stephen, On Desultory and Systematic Reading
- Irremediable, incorrigible.
- an incurable romantic
Noun
incurable (plural incurables)
- One who cannot be cured.
- 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.1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Phantom Rickshaw”, in The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales, Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler and Co., page 7
incurable meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
incurable in Hindi
- unable to be cured
- असाध्य asādhya
incurable in Tamil
- குணப்படுத்த முடியாத, திருத்த முடியாத, தீர்க்க இயலாத குணப்படுத்த முடியாத, ஆறா, குணமடையா, தீரா
incurable in Marathi
- unable to be cured
- असाध्य asādhya
incurable in Urdu
- ناقابل علاج
More languagesFewer languages
- incurable in Bengali
- অনারোগ্য onarogyo
- incurable in Malayalam
- അചികിത്സ്യ, ശമിപ്പിക്കാനാവാത്ത, സുഖപ്പെടുത്താൻ പറ്റാത്ത, അസാദ്ധ്യ
- incurable in Kannada
- ಮಾಣಿಸಲಾಗದ, ಮಾಜಿಸಲಾಗದ, ತಿದ್ದಲಾಗದ, ವಾಸಿಮಾಡಲಾಗದ
- incurable in Arabic
- لَا رَجَاء مِن شِفَائِه lā rajāʔ min šifāʔih
- incurable in Thai
- รักษาไม่หาย
Examples of incurable in a sentence
- I don't know if this is incurable stage fright, or age fright!
- However, once you get the water-fright it is almost incurable, and perhaps not worth writing about.
- This incurable disease, called scrapie, became a large problem, often killing one ewe in ten.
Synonyms of incurable
Antonyms
Forms of incurable
| plural | incurables |
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Origin of incurable
From Old French incurable, from Late Latin incurabilis.
Words formed from incurable
Questions about incurable
- What does incurable mean?
- Incurable means of an illness, condition, etc, that is unable to be cured; healless.
- What is incurable in Hindi?
- Incurable in Hindi is असाध्य (asādhya). See Incurable meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is incurable?
- Incurable can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce incurable?
- Incurable is pronounced /ˌɪnˈkjʊəɹəbl/ (UK).
Words near incurable in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: incurable (page history and authors); incurable (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); incurable (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); অনারোগ্য (Bengali) (page history and authors); incurable (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); incurable (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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