anti-cure

anti-cure

See also: anticure

English

Alternative forms

• anticure

Etymology

From anti- +‎ cure.

Adjective

anti-cure (comparative more anti-cure, superlative most anti-cure)

1. Opposed to a cure, especially where the condition being cured may be regarded as an acceptable alternative state of being.
   • 1993, Janine Morgall Traulsen, Technology Assessment: A Feminist Perspective

     This is particularly true in the area of medical technology, where being anti-technology is equated with being anti-health and anti-cure.

   • 1999, Gary Karp, Life on Wheels: For the Active Wheelchair User

     I think many of the anti-cure people focus too much on the semantics of the word "cure." How about "fix" instead?

   • 2007, David Frum, Comeback: Conservatism that Can Win Again

     President Bush pitched his tent on the wrong ground when he set limits on embryo research — he sounded anti-science, anti-cure.

Anagrams

• Teucrian, anuretic, α-Centauri