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UK
/ɪnkjˈɔːɹəbəl/
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[ US /ˌɪnˈkjʊɹəbəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnˈkjʊɹəbəɫ/ ]
NOUN
- a person whose disease is incurable
ADJECTIVE
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incapable of being cured
an incurable disease
an incurable addiction to smoking -
unalterable in disposition or habits
an incurable optimist
How To Use incurable In A Sentence
- ‘I find most skeptics to be incurable optimists,’ Hyde continues.
- Here, hundreds of millions of men, women and children are suffering from an incurable disease, chronic arsonicosis, and millions more are at risk.
- Being the incurable stickybeak that I am, I went back thru the archives ’til I found the thread you mentioned. Cheeseburger Gothic » Newly renovated Ladies Lounge.
- Showing little progress and imposing a burden on educators and their resources, the incurables were gradually abandoned in favor of those who showed more promise.
- John's ex-wife is also hospitalized, with incurable cancer.
- You're a hopeless/incurable romantic.
- The incurable condition is caused by inflammation blocking intestines. The Sun
- There were some suggested improvements, including building up the growing love between the plumber and the undine, mentioning earlier that undines are incurable romantics, and changing the plumber's ex (who shows up several times) into several separate exes to demonstrate the plumber's previous personal history. 6/18/08: Taos Toolbox, days 10-11: Some have broken under the strain of it
- Neurologists are often accused of being interested in only rare incurable diseases.
- It is the profound, incurable, and inextirpable bigotry of the English people, to which they will not hesitate to sacrifice the national honour, the public happiness, their own liberties, and their own consciences ... .... Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846