incurable

Speech parts

1. incurable - Noun

2. incurable - Adjective

3. incurable - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Not capable of being cured; beyond the power of skill or medicine to remedy; as, an incurable disease.

Not admitting or capable of remedy or correction; irremediable; remediless; as, incurable evils.

A person diseased beyond cure.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

hopeless irreparable irretrievable irrecoverable irremediable remediless established complete impossible absolute terminal chronic fatal invalid deadly
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Antonyms

curable accessible healthy reversible able-bodied practicable
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Hypernyms

sufferer sick person diseased person

Phrases with the word

incurable degenerative disease incurable degenerative disease affecting brain incurable lung disease incurable disease

Anagrams

binuclear

Examples

an incurable optimist Source: Internet

an incurable disease Source: Internet

an incurable addiction to smoking Source: Internet

Across the world, more than 10 lakh people have been reported positive to the highly contagious virus, with over a toll of 52,000 people succumbing to the incurable illness. Source: Internet

Any football ambitions disappeared when he contracted tuberculosis at the age of 17. The affliction, which was then incurable, caused Camus to be bedridden for long and painful periods. Source: Internet

Associated eponym * Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease : A very rare and incurable degenerative neurological disease. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

incur blame incur debt incurability incurable degenerative disease incurable degenerative disease affecting brain incurable disease