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incurable

English

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Etymology

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From Old French incurable, from Late Latin incurabilis.

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Adjective

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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

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Noun

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incurable (plural incurables)

  1. One who cannot be cured.

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Catalan

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Etymology

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From Late Latin incurābilis. First attested in 1460.[1]

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incurable m or f (masculine and feminine plural incurables)

  1. incurable
    Synonym: inguarible
    Antonyms: curable, guarible
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  1. ^ “incurable”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024

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French

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Etymology

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

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incurable (plural incurables)

  1. incurable
    Synonym: inguérissable
    Near-synonym: inopérable
    Antonyms: curable, guérissable, soignable

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Middle French

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incurable m or f (plural incurables)

  1. incurable

Spanish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Late Latin incūrābilis.

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

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incurable m or f (masculine and feminine plural incurables)

  1. incurable
    Antonym: curable

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