insanable

English

Etymology

From Latin īnsānābilis. Compare Old French insanable. See in- (“not”) +‎ sanable.

Adjective

insanable (comparative more insanable, superlative most insanable)

1. Not capable of being healed, incurable, irremediable.

   Synonym: sanable

   • 1921, Frank Moore Colby, The Margin of Hesitation, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, →OCLC, page 132:

     […] by the Cirrhæan spikes, by the boiled head of my own baby served in Egyptian vinegar, I curse the whole insanable cacoëthical cohort of scriptitating—

References

• “insanable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• nebalians

Spanish

Adjective

insanable m or f (masculine and feminine plural insanables)

1. insanable; uncurable

Derived terms

• insanablemente

 

Further reading

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