Thesaurus: incurable

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1. a. Not capable of being cured; beyond the power of skill or medicine to remedy; as, an incurable disease.
2. a. Not admitting or capable of remedy or correction; irremediable; remediless; as, incurable evils.
3. n. A person diseased beyond cure.
4. adj. incapable of being cured
5. adj. unalterable in disposition or habits
6. n. a person whose disease is incurable
7. 1. Not capable of being cured; beyond the power of skill or medicine to remedy; as, an incurable disease. A scirrh is not absolutely incurable. Arbuthnot. 2. Not admitting or capable of remedy or correction; irremediable; remediless; as, incurable evils. Rancorous and incurable hostility. Burke. They were laboring under a profound, and, as it might have seemed, an almost incurable ignorance. Sir J. Stephen. Syn. -- Irremediable; remediless; irrecoverable; irretrievable; irreparable; hopeless. A person diseased beyond cure.
8. j:100 n. a person whose disease is incurable a. incapable of being cured s. unalterable in disposition or habits