incurable

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   unalterable in disposition or habits

   an incurable optimist

2. 2
   adj

   incapable of being cured

   an incurable disease

3. 3
   adj

   Of an illness, condition, etc, that is unable to be cured; healless.

   They were labouring under a profound, and, as it might have seemed, an almost incurable ignorance.

4. 4
   adj

   Irremediable, incorrigible.

   an incurable romantic

5. 5
   noun

   One who cannot be cured.

   Heatherlegh, the Doctor, kept, in addition to his regular practice, a hospital on his private account — an arrangement of loose-boxes for Incurables, his friends called it — but it was really a sort of fitting-up shed for craft that had been damaged by stress of weather.

6. 6
   noun

   a person whose disease is incurable

Etymology

From Old French incurable, from Late Latin incurabilis.