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Incurable \In*cur"a*ble\, a. [F. incurable, L. incurabilis. See
{In-} not, and {Curable}.]
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1. Not capable of being cured; beyond the power of skill or
medicine to remedy; as, an incurable disease.
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A scirrhus is not absolutely incurable. --Arbuthnot.
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2. Not admitting or capable of remedy or correction;
irremediable; remediless; as, incurable evils.
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Rancorous and incurable hostility. --Burke.
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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.
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Incurable \In*cur"a*ble\, n.
A person diseased beyond cure.
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