incurable Meaning, Definition & Usage

noun a person whose disease is incurable
adjective incapable of being cured
- an incurable disease
- an incurable addiction to smoking
adjective satellite unalterable in disposition or habits
- an incurable optimist

F. incurable, L. incurabilis. See In- not, and Curable.

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.
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.