incurable

From Old French incurable, from Late Latin incurabilis.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌɪnˈkjʊəɹəbl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌɪnˈkjʊɹəbl/

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incurable (not comparable)

1. Of an illness, condition, etc, that is unable to be cured; healless.
   • 1854, James Stephen, On Desultory and Systematic Reading

     They were labouring under a profound, and, as it might have seemed, an almost incurable ignorance.

• uncurable

• curable

• incurable romantic, … optimist, … dreamer

• incurability
• terminal

incurable (plural incurables)

1. One who cannot be cured.

• binuclear

From Late Latin incurabilis, attested from 1460.[1]

incurable (masculine and feminine plural incurables)

1. incurable

   Synonym: inguarible

   Antonyms: curable, guarible

• incurabilitat

• “incurable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “incurable” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “incurable” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Late Latin incurabilis.

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.ky.ʁabl/

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incurable (plural incurables)

1. incurable

   Synonym: inguérissable

   Antonyms: curable, guérissable

• “incurable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

incurable m or f (plural incurables)

1. incurable

From Late Latin incūrābilis.

• IPA^(key): /inkuˈɾable/ [ĩŋ.kuˈɾa.β̞le]
• Rhymes: -able
• Syllabification: in‧cu‧ra‧ble

incurable (plural incurables)

1. incurable

   Antonym: curable

• incurabilidad

• “incurable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014