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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Incurable \In*cur"a*ble\, n. A person diseased beyond cure. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Incurable \In*cur"a*ble\, a. [F. incurable, L. incurabilis See {In-} not and {Curable}.] 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: incurable adj 1: being such that a cure is impossible; "an incurable disease"; "an incurable addiction to smoking" [ant: {curable}] 2: without hope of cure; "incurable cancer" 3: unalterable in disposition or habits; "an incurable optimist" n : a person whose disease is incurable
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