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insanable

insanable adjective: not capable of being healed, incurable, irremediable.

Adjective

insanable (not comparable)

  1. Not capable of being healed, incurable, irremediable.
    • […] 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—1921, Frank Moore Colby, The Margin of Hesitation, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, →OCLC, page 132
    Synonyms:
    sanable

Synonyms of insanable

Origin of insanable

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

Questions about insanable

What does insanable mean?
Insanable means not capable of being healed, incurable, irremediable.
What part of speech is insanable?
Insanable is an adjective.

Words near insanable in the dictionary

  1. insalubriousness
  2. insalubrities
  3. insalubrity
  4. insalutary
  5. insanability
  6. insanable
  7. insane
  8. insane asylum
  9. insane asylums
  10. insane in the membrane
  11. insanely

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