Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Without cure; incurable; not admitting of a remedy: as, a cureless disorder.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Incapable of cure; incurable.
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- adjective Lacking a
cure ,incurable .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Surely Bieber's millions of fans consumed with the cureless 'Bieber Fever' would do anything to spend a day in Sam's paws.
Wendy Diamond: Animal Fair Media's 2011 Most Eligible Pets Will Make A Belieber Out Of You! Wendy Diamond 2011
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Surely Bieber's millions of fans consumed with the cureless 'Bieber Fever' would do anything to spend a day in Sam's paws.
Wendy Diamond: Animal Fair Media's 2011 Most Eligible Pets Will Make A Belieber Out Of You! Wendy Diamond 2011
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I fear thee, - no longer need I veil my dread 'neath words, - lest thou devise against my child some cureless ill.
Medea 2008
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But at dawn both sides perceived the fatal and cureless error; and bitter grief seized the Minyan heroes when they saw before them Cyzicus son of Aeneus fallen in the midst of dust and blood.
The Argonautica 2008
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I fear thee, - no longer need I veil my dread 'neath words, - lest thou devise against my child some cureless ill.
Medea 2008
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His habits were unhinged; his restless mind roused from its sleep, ambition must now be his companion through life; and if he did not succeed in his present attempt, she foresaw that unhappiness and cureless discontent would follow.
The Last Man 2003
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Raymond then lamented the cureless evil of his situation with Perdita.
The Last Man 2003
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The reproaches which agony extorted; or worse, cureless, uncomplaining depression, when his mind was sunk in a torpor, not the less painful because it was silent and moveless.
The Last Man 2003
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Scandals in high life, starvation in low life; foul floods of nastiness in Law Courts; muddy tricklings of misery in lawless alleys; crimes so terrible and revolting; pains so pitiless and cureless; follies so selfish and wanton, that he let the journal drop, and fell back in his chair, appalled.
Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, Jan. 2, 1892 Various
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Perhaps its removal may cause cureless deformity; or it may be the stain goes as deep as life itself.
The Short-story William Patterson Atkinson
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