incurable

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)

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.

Synonyms

• uncurable

Antonyms

• curable

Derived terms

• incurable romantic, … optimist, … dreamer

Related terms

• incurability
• terminal

Translations

unable to be cured

Armenian: please add this translation if you can 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 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) Ukrainian: невиліко́вний (nevylikóvnyj)

Noun

incurable (plural incurables)

1. One who cannot be cured.

Anagrams

• binuclear

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Catalan

Etymology

From Late Latin incurabilis, attested from 1460.[1]

Adjective

incurable (masculine and feminine plural incurables)

1. incurable

   Synonym: inguarible

   Antonyms: curable, guarible

Related terms

• incurabilitat

References

1. “incurable”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023

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.

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French

Etymology

From Late Latin incurabilis.

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

   Antonyms: curable, guérissable

Further reading

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

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Middle French

Adjective

incurable m or f (plural incurables)

1. incurable

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Spanish

Etymology

From Late Latin incūrābilis.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

incurable (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