"incurable" meaning in English

See incurable in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˌɪnˈkjʊəɹəbl/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˌɪnˈkjʊɹəbl/ [US] Audio: En-incurable.ogg
Etymology: From Old French incurable, from Late Latin incurabilis. Etymology templates: {{der|en|fro|incurable}} Old French incurable, {{der|en|LL.|incurabilis}} Late Latin incurabilis Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} incurable (not comparable)
  1. Of an illness, condition, etc, that is unable to be cured; healless. Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Health Translations (unable to be cured): ἀνίατος (aníatos) (Ancient Greek), لَا رَجَاء مِن شِفَائِه (lā rajāʔ min šifāʔih) (Arabic), անբուժելի (anbuželi) (Armenian), невыле́чны (njevyljéčny) (Belarusian), неизлечи́м (neizlečím) (Bulgarian), incurable (Catalan), 醫不好的 (Chinese Mandarin), 医不好的 (yī bùhǎo de) (Chinese Mandarin), 不可救藥的 (Chinese Mandarin), 不可救药的 (bùkě jiùyào de) (Chinese Mandarin), nevyléčitelný (Czech), uhelbredelig (Danish), ongeneeslijk (Dutch), parantumaton (Finnish), incurable (French), unheilbar (German), ανίατος (aníatos) (Greek), gyógyíthatatlan (Hungarian), javíthatatlan (Hungarian), menthetetlen (Hungarian), megrögzött (Hungarian), incurabile (Italian), 不治の (alt: ふじの, fuji no, ふちの, fuchi no) (Japanese), 治らない (naoranai) (alt: なおらない) (Japanese), 불치의 (bulchi-ui) (Korean), 치유할 수 없다 (chiyuhal su eopda) (Korean), insanabilis (Latin), desperatus (Latin), неизлечив (neizlečiv) (Macedonian), uhelbredelig (Norwegian Bokmål), چارهسز (çaresiz) (Ottoman Turkish), درمانسز (dermansız) (Ottoman Turkish), علاجسز (ʼilacsız) (Ottoman Turkish), onheelboa (Plautdietsch), nieuleczalny (Polish), incurável (Portuguese), incurabil (Romanian), неизлечи́мый (neizlečímyj) (Russian), неизлѐчив [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), neizlèčiv [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), nevyliečiteľný (Slovak), neozdravljiv (Slovene), incurable (Spanish), obotlig (Swedish), dermansız (Turkish), невиліко́вний (nevylikóvnyj) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-incurable-en-adj-AwsgRrOa Disambiguation of Health: 84 5 11 Disambiguation of 'unable to be cured': 77 23
  2. (figuratively) Irremediable, incorrigible. Tags: figuratively, not-comparable
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: uncurable Related terms: incurability, terminal

Noun

IPA: /ˌɪnˈkjʊəɹəbl/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˌɪnˈkjʊɹəbl/ [US] Audio: En-incurable.ogg Forms: incurables [plural]
Etymology: From Old French incurable, from Late Latin incurabilis. Etymology templates: {{der|en|fro|incurable}} Old French incurable, {{der|en|LL.|incurabilis}} Late Latin incurabilis Head templates: {{en-noun}} incurable (plural incurables)
  1. One who cannot be cured.
    Sense id: en-incurable-en-noun-ojLk3GcV

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