incurable

English

Etymology

From Old French incurable, from Late Latin incurabilis.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌɪnˈkjʊəɹəbl/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˌɪnˈkjʊɹəbl/
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Adjective

incurable (not comparable)

Of an illness, condition, etc, that is unable to be cured; healless.
- 1854, James Stephen, On Desultory and Systematic Reading:
  They were labouring under a profound, and, as it might have seemed, an almost incurable ignorance.
(figuratively) Irremediable, incorrigible.
an incurable romantic

Synonyms

uncurable

Antonyms

curable

Related terms

Translations

unable to be cured

Arabic: لَا رَجَاء مِن شِفَائِه (lā rajāʔ min šifāʔih)
Armenian: անբուժելի (hy) (anbuželi)
Belarusian: невыле́чны (njevyljéčny)
Bulgarian: неизлечи́м (bg) (neizlečím)
Catalan: incurable (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 醫不好的 / 医不好的 (yī bùhǎo de), 不可救藥的 / 不可救药的 (zh) (bùkě jiùyào de)
Czech: nevyléčitelný
Danish: uhelbredelig (da)
Dutch: ongeneeslijk (nl)
Finnish: parantumaton (fi)
French: incurable (fr)
German: unheilbar (de)
Greek: ανίατος (el) (aníatos)
Ancient: ἀνίατος (aníatos)
Hungarian: gyógyíthatatlan (hu)
Italian: incurabile (it)
Japanese: 不治の (ja) (ふじの, fuji no, ふちの, fuchi no), 治らない (ja) (なおらない, naoranai)
Korean: 불치의 (bulchi-ui), 치유할 수 없다 (chiyuhal su eopda)
Latin: insanabilis, desperatus
Macedonian: неизлечив (neizlečiv)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: uhelbredelig
Ottoman Turkish: چاره‌سز (çaresiz), درمانسز (dermansız), علاجسز (ʼilacsız)
Plautdietsch: onheelboa
Polish: nieuleczalny (pl)
Portuguese: incurável (pt)
Romanian: incurabil (ro)
Russian: неизлечи́мый (ru) (neizlečímyj)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: неизлѐчив

Roman: neizlèčiv
Slovak: nevyliečiteľný
Slovene: neozdravljiv
Spanish: incurable (es)
Swedish: obotlig (sv)
Turkish: dermansız (tr)
Ukrainian: невиліко́вний (nevylikóvnyj)

figuratively: irremediable, incorrigible — see also irremediable,‎ incorrigible

Hungarian: javíthatatlan (hu), menthetetlen (hu), megrögzött (hu)
Ottoman Turkish: چاره‌سز (çaresiz), درمانسز (dermansız), علاجسز (ʼilacsız)

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