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incurables

incurables is the plural of incurable.

Meaning of incurable

Noun

incurable (plural incurables)

  1. 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

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Questions about incurables

What is incurables the plural of?
Incurables is the plural of incurable.

Words near incurables in the dictionary

  1. incunabulum
  2. incur
  3. incurability
  4. incurable
  5. incurableness
  6. incurables
  7. incurably
  8. incuriosity
  9. incurious
  10. incuriously
  11. incuriousness

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