incurable

English

Etymology

From Old French incurable, from Late Latin incurabilis.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio

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Adjective

incurable (not comparable)

1. 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.

2. (figuratively) Irremediable, incorrigible.

   an incurable romantic

Synonyms

• uncurable

Antonyms

• curable

Related terms

• incurability
• terminal

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)

Noun

incurable (plural incurables)

1. One who cannot be cured.

Anagrams

• binuclear

Catalan

Etymology

From Late Latin incurābilis. First attested in 1460.

Adjective

incurable m or f (masculine and feminine plural incurables)

1. incurable

   Synonym: inguarible

   Antonyms: curable, guarible

Related terms

• incurabilitat

Further reading

• “incurable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “incurable” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “incurable” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Late Latin incūrābilis. By surface analysis, in- +‎ curable.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.ky.ʁabl/

• Audio

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• Audio (Switzerland)

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Adjective

incurable (plural incurables)

1. incurable

   Synonym: inguérissable

   Near-synonym: inopérable

   Antonyms: curable, guérissable, soignable

Derived terms

• incurablement

Further reading

• “incurable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Middle French

Adjective

incurable m or f (plural incurables)

1. incurable

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin incūrābilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /inkuˈɾable/ [ĩŋ.kuˈɾa.β̞le]
• Rhymes: -able
• Syllabification: in‧cu‧ra‧ble

Adjective

incurable m or f (masculine and feminine plural incurables)

1. incurable

   Antonym: curable

Derived terms

• incurabilidad

 

Related terms

• curable
• curar
• incuria

 

Further reading

• “incurable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014