Definitions for incurable
ɪnˈkyʊər ə bəlin·cur·able

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. incurableadjective

   a person whose disease is incurable

2. incurableadjective

   incapable of being cured

   "an incurable disease"; "an incurable addiction to smoking"

3. incurableadjective

   unalterable in disposition or habits

   "an incurable optimist"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. incurablenoun

   One who cannot be cured.

2. incurableadjective

   Of an illness, condition, etc, that cannot be cured; healless.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Incurableadjective

   Not admitting remedy; not to be removed by medicine; irremediable; hopeless.

   Etymology: incurable, Fr. in and curable.

   Pause not; for the present time's so sick,
   That present medicine must be ministred,
   Or overthrow incurable ensues. William Shakespeare, King John.

   Stop the rage betime,
   Before the wound do grow incurable;
   For being green, there is great hope of help. William Shakespeare, H. VI.

   A schirrus is not absolutely incurable, because it has been known that fresh pasture has cured it in cattle. Arbuthnot.

   If idiots and lunaticks cannot be found, incurables may be taken into the hospital. Jonathan Swift.

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1. incurable

   A cure is a substance or procedure that ends a medical condition, such as a medication, a surgical operation, a change in lifestyle or even a philosophical mindset that helps end a person's sufferings; or the state of being healed, or cured. The medical condition could be a disease, mental illness, genetic disorder, or simply a condition a person considers socially undesirable, such as baldness or lack of breast tissue. An incurable disease may or may not be a terminal illness; conversely, a curable illness can still result in the patient's death. The proportion of people with a disease that are cured by a given treatment, called the cure fraction or cure rate, is determined by comparing disease-free survival of treated people against a matched control group that never had the disease.Another way of determining the cure fraction and/or "cure time" is by measuring when the hazard rate in a diseased group of individuals returns to the hazard rate measured in the general population.Inherent in the idea of a cure is the permanent end to the specific instance of the disease. When a person has the common cold, and then recovers from it, the person is said to be cured, even though the person might someday catch another cold. Conversely, a person that has successfully managed a disease, such as diabetes mellitus, so that it produces no undesirable symptoms for the moment, but without actually permanently ending it, is not cured. Related concepts, whose meaning can differ, include response, remission and recovery.

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1. incurable

   Incurable refers to something, specifically a disease or condition, that is impossible to treat, alleviate, or completely cure using current medical treatments or methods.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Incurableadjective

   not capable of being cured; beyond the power of skill or medicine to remedy; as, an incurable disease

2. Incurableadjective

   not admitting or capable of remedy or correction; irremediable; remediless; as, incurable evils

3. Incurablenoun

   a person diseased beyond cure

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Incurable

   in-kūr′a-bl, adj. not admitting of cure or correction.—n. one beyond cure.—ns. Incur′ableness, Incurabil′ity.—adv. Incur′ably.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of incurable in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of incurable in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of incurable in a Sentence

1. Mickey Rooney:

   Judy Garland was a different type of entertainer. She was a dancer, a singer, and an incurable romantic.

2. Masatane Muto:

   ALS is thought to be an incurable disease, but I believe hope is now growing for ALS patients to pursue their lifestyle and quality of life with the help of technology.

3. Kathryn Kase:

   Mr. Panetti is a sick man who has suffered from schizophrenia, an incurable mental illness, for over thirty years, including prior to and during the crime, and during his trial at which he represented himself in a floridly psychotic state.

4. Gong Xunhui:

   I want to use my personal experience to tell other ALS patients that, although we suffer from this incurable disease, there is still much we can do to enrich our lives.

5. Ogden Nash:

   Man is a victim of dope in the incurable form of hope.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=incurable
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Incurable
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=incurable
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incurable
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/incurable
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=incurable