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(), a.[F. incurable, L. incurabilis. See In- not, and Curable.] 1. Not capable of being cured; beyond the power of skill or medicine to remedy; as, an incurable disease. A scirrhus is not absolutely incurable. Arbuthnot. 2. Not admitting or capable of remedy or correction; irremediable; remediless; as, incurable evils. Rancorous and incurable hostility. Burke. They were laboring under a profound, and, as it might have seemed, an almost incurable ignorance. Sir J. Stephen. Syn. -- Irremediable; remediless; irrecoverable; irretrievable; irreparable; hopeless. Incur"able n.A person diseased beyond cure. スポンサード リンク
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