Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Being such that a cure is impossible; not curable.
- adjective Incapable of being altered, as in disposition or habits.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not curable; beyond the power of skill or medicine: as, an incurable disease.
- Not admitting correction: as, incurable evils.
- noun A person diseased beyond the possibility of cure.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A person diseased beyond cure.
- adjective Not capable of being cured; beyond the power of skill or medicine to remedy.
- adjective Not admitting or capable of remedy or correction; irremediable; remediless.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of an illness, condition, etc, that cannot be
cured ;healless . - noun One who cannot be cured.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective unalterable in disposition or habits
- adjective incapable of being cured
- noun a person whose disease is incurable
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Examples
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But Hashemi believed that ultimately this would not solve the problem, which he described as incurable, between the Taliban government and the United States.
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An emergency motion filed with the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago says Ryan's wife went into septic shock, a complication of her treatment for what the motion describes as incurable cancer of the lungs, back, pelvis, ribs and liver.
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An emergency motion filed with the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago says Ryan's wife went into septic shock, a complication of her treatment for what the motion describes as incurable cancer of the lungs, back, pelvis, ribs and liver.
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An emergency motion filed with the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago says Ryan's wife went into septic shock, a complication of her treatment for what the motion describes as incurable cancer of the lungs, back, pelvis, ribs and liver.
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The emergency motion filed with the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago says Ryan's wife went into septic shock, a complication of her treatment for what the motion describes as incurable cancer of the lungs, back, pelvis, ribs and liver.
George Ryan Asks To Visit Gravely Ill Wife, Lura Lynn AP 2011
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An emergency motion filed with the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago says Ryan's wife went into septic shock, a complication of her treatment for what the motion describes as incurable cancer of the lungs, back, pelvis, ribs and liver.
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They are searching for a cure for the incurable, which is why the family you're about to meet is about to go to China really responding only to the promises on a Web site.
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We are dealing with women that we would classify as incurable patients.
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At some point in time, every so-called incurable disease has been cured.
The Secret® to Teen Power Paul Harrington 2009
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He was the one everyone always called the incurable optimist.
Project Everlasting Mathew Boggs 2007
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