cureless

English

Etymology

From cure +‎ -less.

Adjective

cureless (comparative more cureless, superlative most cureless)

1. Lacking a cure; incurable.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Matter of doubt and dread suspitious, / That doth with curelesse care consume the hart […]

   • 1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC, signature F3, verso:

     O hatefull, vaporous, and foggy night, / Since thou art guilty of my cureleſſe crime: / Muſter thy miſts to meete the Eaſterne light, / Make vvar againſt proportion'd courſe of time.

Derived terms

• curelessness

Translations

lacking a cure — see incurable

Anagrams

• recluses