INCURABLE In*cur"a*ble, a. Etym: [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.
INCURABLE
In*cur"a*ble, n.
Defn: A person diseased beyond cure.
INCURABLENESS
In*cur"a*ble*ness, n.
Defn: The state of being incurable; incurability. Boyle.
INCURABLY
In*cur"a*bly, adv.
Defn: In a manner that renders cure impracticable or impossible; irremediably. "Incurably diseased." Bp. Hall. "Incurably wicked." Blair.